Honey farm

Honey farm
x = 13, y = 13, rule = B3/S23 6bo$5bobo$5bobo$6bo2$b2o7b2o$o2bo5bo2bo$b2o7b2o2$6bo$5bobo$5bobo$6bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C Still life
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Pattern type	Constellation
Number of cells	24
Bounding box	13 × 13
Discovered by	JHC group
Year of discovery	1970
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B/S2 – B34678/S012345678 Important rules Conway Life # of rules 213 = 8192 Isotropic rules B/S2ck – B2-ae345-y678/S012345678
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 2 Catagolue-generated RLE honeyfarm_synth.rle Uploaded synthesis RLE honeyfarm_synth.rle
Pattern files Plaintext honeyfarm.cells RLE honeyfarm.rle
Identifiers apgcode xs24_y1696z2552wgw2552zy1343

Honey farm is a common constellation of four beehives and is one of the familiar fours. It can be hassled in many ways.

In many cases, a block can eat a single beehive, but this is not the case for beehives from a honey farm. A fishhook can, though.

Predecessors

There are many predecessors to a honey farm, which can be hassled in different ways to give a large number of honey farm hasslers and honey farm shuttles.

A honey farm can be made from one beehive by placing a cell in the corner of it (making a bun, third one below), at the tip of it, or inside it (second one below). It also evolves from 7 cells placed in a row (first one below).

There are tens of six-cell patterns that form a honey farm, but none with five.

Below are four different ways a honey farm can form. Other than the line of seven, all are common. The predecessors converge in generations 2, 4, 5, and 6 from left to right; this predecessor is shown in red at the top. However, the generation prior to it, shown in red at the bottom, is different for all four of them.

x = 60, y = 27, rule = LifeHistory 29.3D$28.D3.D$27.D5.D$28.D3.D$29.3D5$57.A$21.A35.A$20.A.A34.A$7A13.3A 15.3A$21.A16.A2.A14.2A$39.2A15.2A8$21.D17.D17.2D$.5D13.2D.2D13.2D.2D 13.2D2.D$.5D13.2D.2D13.2D.2D13.2D.2D$.5D13.2D.2D13.2D2.D13.D2.2D$21.D 17.2D15.2D! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ GPS 4 THUMBSIZE 2 ZOOM 8 ]]

(click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here

Among the 2-glider collisions, three perpendicular and two head-on collisions form a honey farm.

Pulsar-forming reaction

As shown below, when two honey farms spaced at (9,0), (10,0), or (9,2) apart collide, they form two pulsars.

x = 18, y = 46, rule = B3/S23 2b3o7b3o$bo3bo5bo3bo$o5bo3bo5bo$o5bo3bo5bo$o5bo3bo5bo$bo3bo5bo3bo$2b3o 7b3o12$2b3o8b3o$bo3bo6bo3bo$o5bo4bo5bo$o5bo4bo5bo$o5bo4bo5bo$bo3bo6bo 3bo$2b3o8b3o13$2b3o$bo3bo$o5bo5b3o$o5bo4bo3bo$o5bo3bo5bo$bo3bo4bo5bo$ 2b3o5bo5bo$11bo3bo$12b3o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ GPS 12 THUMBSIZE 2 HEIGHT 500 ZOOM 8 ]]

(click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here

Useful glider-emitting reaction

When one particular generation of the honey farm sequence is sparked with a dot or domino spark in a specific location, or more commonly, is eaten by an eater 1, it releases a glider in addition to junk in the form of an interacting wing and lumps of muck. By itself, the reaction destroys the eater, but the junk can be manipulated to provide useful patterns, such as the Snark, 45-degree MWSS-to-G, and the smallest guns of periods 27, 37, 43, 48, 54, 55, 94, and 117.

x = 10, y = 12, rule = B3/S23 5bo$4bobo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$3bo3bo$4bobo$5bo2$2b2o$3bo$3o5b2o$o7b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ GPS 2 THUMBSIZE 2 Y -2 AUTOSTART PAUSE 2 T 12 PAUSE 2 LOOP 22 ]]

Early part of AK-47 reaction shows said reaction (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here

See also

• Beethoven, another beehive-containing constellation
• Crystal, usually involving honey farms
• Honey farm shuttles and other honey farm hasslers

External links

• Honey farm at the Life Lexicon
• Honey farm at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue (pseudo-object)