44P12.3

44P12.3
x = 14, y = 14, rule = B3/S23 7bo$6b2o$5b2o$4bo$3bob4o$2bobo4bo$b2obob2obo2b2o$2o2bob2obob2o$4bo4bob o$5b4obo$9bo$7b2o$6b2o$6bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 3 GPS 5 ZOOM 24 HEIGHT 500 WIDTH 500 ]]
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	44
Bounding box	14×14
Period	12
Mod	12
Heat	38
Volatility	0.87
Strict volatility	0.87
Discovered by	Nicolay Beluchenko
Year of discovery	2009
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B38/S238 Important rules Conway Life # of rules 22 = 4 Isotropic rules B3-cky/S2-n3 – B34ciqry5ac6ce8/S234cez5ckqry6ain7e8
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 54 (17†) Catagolue-generated RLE 44p12.3_synth.rle Uploaded synthesis RLE 44p12.3_synth.rle †Can be constructed with 17 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files Plaintext 44p12.3.cells RLE 44p12.3.rle
Identifiers apgcode xp12_xg8kmjgz4630fgmmgfgc62zy2c621 Pentadecathlon ID 44P12.3

44P12.3 (or Eye of Sauron) is a period-12 oscillator discovered by Nicolay Beluchenko on March 26, 2009.

It is commonly used as a sparker. On January 12, 2019, Tanner Jacobi used it along with dueling banjos, a heavyweight emulator variant, and pipsquirter 1 to build a period 24 glider gun which was then optimized by Matthias Merzenich the next day to be smaller than the previous record holder.

Martin Grant found a 81-glider synthesis for this oscillator on January 5, 2015. This was improved to 79 gliders by Matti Ward on February 17, 2018, followed by 62 gliders in June 2019 due to incremental reductions by Jeremy Tan, BlinkerSpawn, Goldtiger997, and Luka Okanishi. GUYTU6J reduced the synthesis further to 54 gliders in February 2020.

External links

• 4 period 12 oscillators 26 bits and larger at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page

• 44P12.3 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs

• 44P12.3 at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue