Pre-beehive

	Pre-beehive
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Pattern type	Miscellaneous
Number of cells	6
Bounding box	3×2
Discovered by	John Conway
Year of discovery	1970
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B34678/S01234678
Important rules	Conway Life
# of rules	210 = 1024
Isotropic rules	B3i/S2ck3a – B2-ae345-y678/S012345-i678
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	2
Uploaded synthesis RLE	prebeehive_synth.rle
Pattern files
Plaintext	prebeehive.cells
RLE	prebeehive.rle

Pre-beehive is a common 6-cell parent of the beehive. It can be destroyed by an eater 1 in a reaction that is the basis of the dinner table oscillator and the buckaroo.

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