Heavyweight volcano
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Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||||
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Family | Volcano | ||||||||
Number of cells | 96 | ||||||||
Bounding box | 17 × 24 | ||||||||
Period | 5 (mod: 5) | ||||||||
Heat | 33.6 | ||||||||
Volatility | 0.53 | 0.53 | ||||||||
Kinetic symmetry | -e | ||||||||
Discovered by | Dean Hickerson | ||||||||
Year of discovery | 1995 | ||||||||
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Heavyweight volcano is a period-5 oscillator that was found by Dean Hickerson on February 5, 1995[1] that produces a domino spark much like a heavyweight spaceship. Scot Ellison reduced it to the 17-column form shown in the infobox in 2007 using WinLifeSearch.
A period-435 glider gun which shows how this pattern (or a stator variant thereof: Catagolue: here) can be used in a Herschel track (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here |
Gallery
162P5, original form by Dean Hickerson from 1995 (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
158P5, form by David Eppstein from October 2003 (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
134P5, form by Karel Suhajda from February 2004 (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
56P5, another heavyweight volcano variant. This variant has the lowest population, and a decent clearance. (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
65P5, a much smaller form, but with less clearance. Used in the period-55 glider gun and several other oscillators. It is also an option in the quinti-Snark. Its thickness can be reduced by one cell at the cost of being significantly wider (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
256P5, a p5 heavyweight sparker (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
148P5, another form with the heavyweight spaceship's side-spark but different clearance from 256P5 (and using a middleweight volcano as a component) (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here |
86P5, a even smaller heavyweight volcano with side sparks and similar clearance to 148P5, but not as small as 56P5 or 65P5. (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
See also
References
- ↑ Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
External links
- HW volcano at the Life Lexicon
- 162P5.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs (Hickerson variant)
- Heavyweight volcano at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
Categories:
- Patterns
- Oscillators with 96 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 96
- Patterns with 96 cells
- Patterns found by Dean Hickerson
- Patterns found in 1995
- Oscillators
- Volcano variants
- Oscillators with period 5
- Oscillators with mod 5
- Oscillators with heat 33
- Oscillators with volatility 0.53
- Oscillators with strict volatility 0.53
- Oscillators with -e symmetry
- Sparkers
- Sparkers with period 5
- Domino sparkers
- Strong sparkers
- Patterns found in 2007
- Patterns found by Karel Suhajda
- Patterns found by David Eppstein
- Patterns found by Scot Ellison