Catacryst
| Catacryst | |||||
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| Pattern type | Breeder | ||||
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| Number of cells | 58 | ||||
| Bounding box | 2555 × 1772 | ||||
| Direction | Unknown | ||||
| Period | Unknown | ||||
| Speed | Unknown | ||||
| Discovered by | Nick Gotts | ||||
| Year of discovery | 2000 | ||||
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- Not to be confused with catalyst.
Catacryst is a 58-cell quadratic growth pattern found by Nick Gotts on April 21, 2000.[1] This was formerly the smallest known pattern with superlinear growth, but has since been superseded by the related metacatacryst and 26-cell quadratic growth. The catacryst consists of three arks plus a glider-producing switch engine. It produces a block-laying switch engine every 47616 generations. Each block-laying switch engine has only a finite life, but the length of this life increases linearly with each new switch engine, so that the pattern overall grows quadratically, as an unusual type of MMS breeder.
Gallery
Generation 1,000,000 of catacryst
The top portion of the catacryst (an ark)
The top-right portion of the catacryst (a glider-producing switch engine)
The bottom-middle portion of the catacryst (an ark)
The bottom-left portion of the catacryst (an ark)
References
- ↑ Jason Summers' jslife-oversize pattern collection. Retrieved on October 28, 2020.
External links
- Catacryst at the Life Lexicon