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 still life that is made up of two loaves (and makes up half of a bakery). When the term bi-loaf is used, this pattern is its most common meaning.
There is a remarkable reaction where a glider collides with the bi-loaf, displacing it by (3,6) and generating another glider in the same direction as the incident glider. The only other known reactions of this type involve stable reflectors, which have a displacement of (0,0), alongside a constellation of three blocks. This displacement reaction has enabled the construction of half-baked knightships, since there is a way to produce an extra glider using two of them:
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It can also act as a one-time glider reflector in various other collisions.
Commonness
Half-bakery is the eleventh most common still life in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being less common than barge but more common than mango.[1] It is also the fifteenth most common object on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue.[2]
References
- ↑ Achim Flammenkamp (September 7, 2004). "Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life". Retrieved on June 6, 2013.
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher. "Statistics". Catagolue. Retrieved on June 24, 2016.
External links
- Bi-loaf at the Life Lexicon
- Half-bakery at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- The 619 fourteen-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page
