Krake [note 1] 13-cell still life .
The krake is sometimes used when two eater 1s need to be placed close together.
Construction Krake is known to be constructible with 4 gliders [1]
x = 35, y = 17, rule = B3/S23
31bo$30bobo$20bo9bobo$bo12bo5bobo5bobobobo$2bo10bo6b2o6b2o3b2o$3o10b3o9$7b2o$6bobo$8bo!
#C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]]
#C [[ THEME Book ZOOM 10 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 1 T 12 PAUSE 3 T 44 PAUSE 2 LOOP 45 ]]
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A 4G synthesis[1] [2] (click above to open LifeViewer )
x = 37, y = 59, rule = B3/S23
23bo$21b2o$22b2o5bo$29bobo$29b2o7$33bo$32bobo$32bobo$30bobobobo$30b2o
3b2o6$20bo$19b2o$19bobo4b2o$3o23bobo$2bo23bo$bo4$5bo$3bobo$4b2o$18bobo
$18b2o$19bo$33bo$32bobo$11bo20bobo$9bobo18bobobobo$10b2o18b2o3b2o9$18b
2o$17b2o$19bo5$3b3o$5bo$4bo!
#C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]]
#C [[ HEIGHT 650 THEME Book ZOOM 10 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 1 T 12 PAUSE 3 T 20 PAUSE 1 T 43 PAUSE 2 LOOP 44 ]]
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Two 5G syntheses[1] (click above to open LifeViewer )
Occurrence See also: List of common still lifes , List of still lifes with 13 cells Krake is the 143rd most common still life on Adam P. Goucher 's Catagolue , being less common than cis-barge with tail but more common than ship tie snake . Among all still lifes with 13 cells, it is the 11th most common, being less common than house siamese shillelagh but more common than bookend siamese shillelagh .[3] octo3obj database with krake in the ash.[note 2]
Notes
↑ The origin of the name is not known. However, krake means octopus in German and the name seems to have first appeared in Achim Flammenkamp's census no later than 2004.
↑ Headerless RLEs of the collisions are b2o5b3o2bo$o2bo8b2o$b2o9bobo5$3bo$3bo$3bo! (11 escaping gliders, final population 472) and 5b2ob2o$5b2ob2o4$6b2ob2o$b2o3b2ob2o$o2bo$b2o$4b3o$4bo$5bo! (3 escaping gliders, final population 112).
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