Trans-snake-tie

Trans-snake-tie
x = 6, y = 6, rule = B3/S23 4b2o$5bo$4bo$4b2o$ob2o$2obo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 3 ZOOM 21 HEIGHT 400 SUPPRESS ]]
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Pattern type	Strict still life
Number of cells	12
Bounding box	6 × 6
Frequency class	32.2
Static symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Robert Wainwright Everett Boyer
Year of discovery	1973
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B/S23 – B35678/S012345678 # of rules 212 = 4096 Isotropic rules B/S2ae3kn – B2-ac34-rw5678/S012345678
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 5 Catagolue-generated RLE synthesis
Pattern files Plaintext transsnaketie.cells RLE transsnaketie.rle
Identifiers apgcode xs12_kc3213z11 Niemiec ID 12.14 Pentadecathlon ID 12.15

The trans-snake-tie is a 12-cell still life.

Construction

This still life is known to be constructible with 5 gliders. A 5-glider synthesis was found by Carson Cheng and iNoMed on August 11, 2022. Several known alternate syntheses can be found in Mark Niemiec's database.

x = 68, y = 29, rule = B3/S23 obo37bobo$b2o38b2o$bo39bo5$4bo39bo$2bobo37bobo$3b2o23b2obo11b2o$28bob 2o$32b2o$7b3o22bo14b3o$9bo8bo14bo15bo8bo$8bo8b2o13b2o14bo8b2o$17bobo 37bobo5$20b3o27b2o$20bo28bobo$21bo29bo4$66b2o$65b2o$67bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THEME Book ZOOM 8 X 0 Y 0 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 3 T 29 PAUSE 1 T 36 PAUSE 1 LOOP 37 ]] A 5G synthesis (left) and a 6G synthesis (right) (click above to open LifeViewer)

x = 38, y = 28, rule = B3/S23 11bo$12bo$10b3o2$15bo$16b2o$15b2o4bo$21bobo$21b2o2$32b2obo$22bo9bob2o$ 22bobo11b2o$22b2o12bo$37bo$36b2o$14b3o$bo12bo$b2o12bo$obo6$24b2o$23b2o $25bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THEME Book ZOOM 10 X 0 Y 0 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 3 T 28 PAUSE 1 T 29 PAUSE 2 LOOP 30 ]] A 7G synthesis (click above to open LifeViewer)

Occurrence

Among the 121 still lifes with 12 cells, this is the 89th most common still life according to Catagolue.

There are no occurrences of this still life in final patterns of collisions in octohash, octo3obj or octo3g databases.

See also

• Cis-snake-tie
• Trans-carrier-tie

External links

• Trans-snake-tie at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
• 12.15 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs