Confused eaters
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| Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 20 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 11 × 11 | ||||||||
| Period | 4 (mod: 2) | ||||||||
| Heat | 6 | ||||||||
| Volatility | 0.43 | 0.43 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | n/ | ||||||||
| Discovered by | David Buckingham | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||||||
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Confused eaters is a period-4 oscillator that was found by David Buckingham no later than 1972.[1] It consists of two eater 1s hassling a nine.
This oscillator first appeared naturally on March 21, 2020, in a haul submitted to Catagolue by Rob Liston.[2][3] A subsequent occurrence allowed for a 13-glider synthesis by goldenratio on July 28, which was reduced to 9 gliders by Mark Niemiec and Tanner Jacobi later the same day.[4] On June 23, 2024, Carson Cheng reduced it to 8 gliders.[5][6] Of note, this synthesis has the gliders approaching in two streams at 90° to each other.
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Extensions
Lifeline Volume 11, p. 16 shows a phase shift in which one confused-eaters may use another's stable pre-block rock as an eater head.
| Confused (eater and confused eaters) (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here |
This has a 14-glider synthesis as a corollary of Cheng's 6-glider synthesis component, which can attach to heads of confusions as well as eaters.
As well as chains of nested confusions, this allows a tetramer to be formed.
| Ouroboros of confusions (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here |
See also
References
- ↑ Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
- ↑ praosylen (March 24, 2020). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher. "Haul". Catagolue. Retrieved on March 25, 2020.
- ↑ goldenratio (July 28, 2020). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ carsoncheng (June 23, 2024). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ shinjuku (#7165866493) (June 23, 2024). Job triggered by Adam P. Goucher at GitLab Catagolue project.
External links
- Confused eaters at the Life Lexicon
- 20P4.5 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
- Patterns
- Oscillators with 20 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 20
- Patterns with 20 cells
- Patterns found by David Buckingham
- Patterns that can be constructed with 8 gliders
- Oscillators
- Oscillators with period 4
- Oscillators with mod 2
- Oscillators with heat 6
- Oscillators with volatility 0.43
- Oscillators with strict volatility 0.43
- Oscillators with n/ symmetry
- Natural periodic objects