Almosymmetric

	Almosymmetric
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	17
Bounding box	9×8
Period	2
Mod	1
Heat	22
Volatility	0.79
Strict volatility	0.79
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	1971
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B35678/S2345678
Important rules	Conway Life, Day & Night, HighLife
# of rules	29 = 512
Isotropic rules	B3cnqry/S2ae3n – B2n34-r5678/S2345678
Pattern files
Plaintext	almosymmetric.cells
RLE	almosymmetric.rle
Identifiers
apgcode	xp2_0b1205jgz1140c02
Pentadecathlon ID	17P2.172

Almosymmetric is a period-2 oscillator that was found in 1971.^[1] It is closely related to the phoenix 1 and barberpole oscillators.

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