Long⁵ snake

Long5 snake
x = 9, y = 7, rule = B3/S23 2o$obo$3bo$4bo$5bo$6bobo$7b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 3 ZOOM 21 HEIGHT 400 SUPPRESS ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 500 THUMBSIZE 3 ZOOM 36 ]]
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Pattern type	Strict still life
Number of cells	11
Bounding box	7 × 9
Frequency class	33.8
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B/S23 – B35678/S012345678 # of rules 212 = 4096 Isotropic rules B/S2aen3n – B2ikn34-r5678/S012345678
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 5 Catagolue-generated RLE synthesis Uploaded synthesis RLE long5snake_synth.rle
Pattern files Plaintext long5snake.cells RLE long5snake.rle
Identifiers apgcode xs11_xg853zca1 Niemiec ID 11.9 Pentadecathlon ID 11.31

Long⁵ snake (or terribly long snake) is an 11-cell still life, the long⁵ extension of snake.

Construction

A 5-glider synthesis was found by Carson Cheng on April 5, 2023.

x = 49, y = 37, rule = B3/S23 22bo$2bo18bo$obo18b3o$b2o2$39b2o$39bobo$42bo$43bo$44bo$45bobo$46b2o2$ 18bo$17b2o$17bobo15$46b2o$46bobo$46bo2$6b2o$5bobo$7bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 400 THEME Book ZOOM 10 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 1 T 20 PAUSE 3 T 87 PAUSE 2 LOOP 88 ]]

A 5G synthesis (click above to open LifeViewer)

x = 38, y = 30, rule = B3/S23 19bo$17b2o$18b2o2$o$b2o$2o20bo$21bo$21b3o6$29b2o$29bobo$32bo$33bo$34bo $28bo6bobo$27b2o7b2o$20b2o5bobo$20bobo$20bo4$25b2o$25bobo$25bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 380 THEME Book ZOOM 10 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 1 T 20 PAUSE 3 T 30 PAUSE 1 T 37 PAUSE 2 LOOP 38 ]]

A 6G synthesis (click above to open LifeViewer)

x = 51, y = 45, rule = B3/S23 11bo$9bobo$10b2o7$36bo$35bo$18bobo14b3o$19b2o$19bo2$42b2o$42bobo$45bo$ 46bo$47bo$48bobo$49b2o4$15b3o$11bo5bo$11b2o3bo19b3o$10bobo23bo$37bo5$ 3o$2bo$bo3$39b2o$4b2o33bobo$3bobo33bo$5bo29b2o$34b2o$36bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 480 THEME Book ZOOM 10 AUTOSTART GPS 12 T 0 PAUSE 1 T 20 PAUSE 3 T 30 PAUSE 1 T 50 PAUSE 1 T 77 PAUSE 2 LOOP 78 ]]

A 10G synthesis (click above to open LifeViewer)

Occurrence

See also: List of common still lifes

Of the 46 11-cell still lifes, the long⁵ snake is the rarest.

There are no occurrences of this still life in final patterns of collisions in octohash, octo3obj or octo3g databases.

External links

• Long⁵ snake at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
• The 46 eleven-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page (download pattern file: 11/11-9.rle)
• 11.31 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs