Burloaferimeter

Burloaferimeter
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Oscillator type	Billiard table
Number of cells	28
Bounding box	10×11
Period	7
Mod	7
Heat	1.4
Volatility	0.16
Strict volatility	0.16
Discovered by	David Buckingham
Year of discovery	1972
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B38/S0235678 Important rules Conway Life # of rules 26 = 64 Isotropic rules B3einy/S2-n3-j – B2n34ackqyz5acin6-ik7c8/S01c234-in5678
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 23 (17†) Catagolue-generated RLE burloaferimeter_synth.rle Uploaded synthesis RLE burloaferimeter_synth.rle †Can be constructed with 17 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files Plaintext burloaferimeter.cells RLE burloaferimeter.rle
Identifiers apgcode xp7_0g88b5oz1255kk3033zy011

Burloaferimeter is a period-7 oscillator that was found by David Buckingham in 1972. In terms of its 28 cells, it is tied with the three unnamed oscillators 28P7.1, 28P7.2, and 28P7.3 as the smallest known period 7 oscillator. In terms of its 10×11 bounding box, it wins outright.

Etymology

According to Mark D. Niemiec, a loaf was called a Bread Loaf by his group, which then was abbreviated to Br'loaf, then became burloaf. "Burloaf" has a population of 7, which "measures" burloaferimeter's period.

Variants

C4_4-symmetric quadruple burloaferimeter variant found by Park Shinhwan on Catagolue in November 2016. View animated image. RLE: here Catagolue: here

C4_4-symmetric quadruple burloaferimeter variant found by Apple Bottom on Catagolue on June 16 2017. View animated image. RLE: here Catagolue: here

A 28-glider synthesis for the variant on the left was discovered by Luka Okanishi shortly after, and was improved to 24 gliders by Jeremy Tan on January 5, 2020.

On September 27, 2020, a burloaferimeter stator variant appeared in an asymmetric soup found by Rob Liston, becoming the first period-7 oscillator to occur naturally. A 12-glider synthesis based on this soup was found soon afterwards due to contributions by various users on Discord.

See also

• 69P48
• Airforce

External links

• Burloaferimeter at the Life Lexicon

• Burloaferimeter at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• Mark D. Niemiec. Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums (burloaferimeter variants)