Buckaroo
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| Buckaroo | |||||||||
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| Pattern type | Reflector Oscillator | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 23 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 23 × 9 | ||||||||
| Frequency class | 42.0 | ||||||||
| Angle | 90° | ||||||||
| Period | 30 | ||||||||
| Heat | 16.7 | ||||||||
| Discovered by | David Buckingham | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||||||
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Buckaroo is a queen bee shuttle stabilized at one or both ends by an eater 1 in such a way that it can turn a glider. The glider turning reaction uses a banana spark and is colour-preserving. The mechanism was found by David Buckingham in the 1970s. Its name is due to Bill Gosper.
It's also possible to reflect a glider 180 degrees with a buckaroo, with a different return glider lane and timing than the 180-degree reflection performed by the pentadecathlons in a relay.
| Buckaroo reflecting a glider (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
A variant of the buckaroo first appeared naturally on April 1, 2015, in a soup submitted to Catagolue by Brett Berger.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (April 1, 2015). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Buckaroo at the Life Lexicon