Butterfly

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Butterfly
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Pattern type Miscellaneous
Number of cells 8
Bounding box 4 × 4
Discovered by Unknown
Year of discovery 1970
This article is about the evolutionary sequence. For the oscillator occasionally also referred to as this, see By flops.

Butterfly is a common evolutionary sequence evolving into the formation of two beehives seen below after 33 generations. Compare this with teardrop, where the beehives are five cells closer together.

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In other rules

In HighLife, the butterfly is part of its replicator's sequence.

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