Half-bakery
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| Pattern type | Strict still life | ||||||||||
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| Number of cells | 14 | ||||||||||
| Bounding box | 7×7 | ||||||||||
| Frequency class | 9.2 | ||||||||||
| Discovered by | Unknown | ||||||||||
| Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||||||||
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Half-bakery is a 14-cell still life made up of two loaves. It is half of a bakery, and the term bi-loaf refers to it most commonly.
Half-bakery reaction
There is a remarkable reaction where a glider collides with the half-bakery, displacing it by (3,6) and generating another glider in the same direction as the input. The only other known reactions of this type involve stable reflectors, which have a displacement of (0,0), alongside a constellation of three blocks.
In May 2004 Ivan Fomichev found an over-unity reaction generating 90-degree output gliders with pairs of these reactions. This is the key of half-baked knightship and parallel HBK.
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Half-bakery can also act as a turner in various other collisions.[1]
Commonness
Half-bakery is the eleventh most common still life on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue, being less common than barge but more common than mango. Among all still lifes with 14 cells, it is the absolute most common, followed by paperclip.[2] It is also the fifteenth most common object overall on Catagolue.
In Achim Flammenkamp's census, the half-bakery was also ranked eleventh most common, again between the barge and mango.[3]
Glider synthesis
All strict still lifes with a population of 20 or fewer cells, as well as all oscillators and spaceships with 16 or fewer cells, are known to be glider-constructible. A glider synthesis of this object can be found in the infobox to the right.
See also
References
- ↑ Emerson J. Perkins (August 24, 2014). Re: Thread For Your Accidental Discoveries (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher. "Statistics". Catagolue. Retrieved on June 17, 2022.
- ↑ Achim Flammenkamp (September 7, 2004). "Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life". Retrieved on June 6, 2013.
External links
- Bi-loaf at the Life Lexicon
- Half-bakery reaction at the Life Lexicon
- The 619 fourteen-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page