Killer toads
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| Pattern type | Eater | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 12 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 4 × 9 | ||||||||
| Static symmetry | D2_+1 | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Unknown | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||||||
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Killer toads is a pair of toads acting together so that they can eat certain patterns.
Killer toads can eat a B-heptomino predecessor, as can be seen in the p2 version of 45-degree MWSS-to-G. This happens to the similarly structured middleweight spaceship and heavyweight spaceship, but not lightweight spaceship which leaves a hazardous beehive.
Killer toads can also eat three quarters of a traffic light, which is featured in twirling T-tetsons 2, the 52-cell p146 pi-heptomino hassler and the p2 variant of L122.
Glider synthesis
For a long time, killer toads was known to be synthesizable in 6 gliders from two separate 3-glider toads. On December 24, 2023, Carson Cheng found a 5-glider synthesis for killer toads,[1][2] followed soon after by another 5-glider synthesis starting from a beehive.[3] On December 27, 2023, a 4-glider synthesis was uploaded to Catagolue.[4][5]
| 4G synthesis[4] (click above to open LifeViewer) |
| 5G synthesis[1] (click above to open LifeViewer) |
| Another 5G synthesis[3] (click above to open LifeViewer) |
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carson Cheng (December 24, 2023). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Carson Cheng (December 24, 2023). Message in #cgol on the Conwaylife Lounge Discord server
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Carson Cheng (December 26, 2023). Message in #cgol on the Conwaylife Lounge Discord server
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chris857 (December 27, 2023). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ shinjuku (#5825907017) (December 27, 2023). Job triggered by Adam P. Goucher at GitLab Catagolue project.
External links
- Killer toads at the Life Lexicon
- Killer toads at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue (pseudo-object)