Twelve loop

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Twelve loop
x = 6, y = 5, rule = B3/S23 b2o$o2bo$bobo$2obobo$4b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 3 ZOOM 21 HEIGHT 400 SUPPRESS ]]
Pattern type Strict still life
Number of cells 12
Bounding box 6 × 5
Frequency class 23.5
Static symmetry Unspecified
Discovered by Robert Wainwright
Everett Boyer
Year of discovery 1973
Not to be confused with Snorkel loop.

Twelve loop is a 12-cell still life. It can be interpreted as a hook with an attached hooked nine.

Glider synthesis

A 4-glider synthesis for this still life is shown below. Several alternate syntheses can be found in Mark Niemiec's database.[1]

x = 25, y = 20, rule = B3/S23 24bo$22b2o$23b2o2$2bo$obo$b2o6$15b2o$15bobo$15bo3$8b3o$10bo$9bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THEME Book ZOOM 10 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 3 T 73 PAUSE 2 LOOP 74 ]]
A 4G synthesis
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Commonness

Main article: List of common still lifes

It is the 147th most common still life on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue and the 18th most common with 12 cells.

The octo3obj database contains one collision with this still life in the ash.[2]

See also

References

  1. The 121 twelve-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page (download pattern file: 12/12-114.rle)
  2. Headerless RLE of the collision: 7b2o$7b2o2$7b2o$7b2o$b2o$b2o$9bo$8bobo$2o6bobo$2o7bo2$bo$2o$obo!

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