Pulsar quadrant

	Pulsar quadrant
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	18
Bounding box	9×9
Period	3
Mod	3
Heat	8
Volatility	0.46
Strict volatility	0.46
Discovered by	David Buckingham
Year of discovery	1973
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B3678/S0235678
Important rules	Conway Life, HighLife
# of rules	28 = 256
Isotropic rules	B3ainq/S23cjkqr – B2ci34-aejnw5-c678/S01c234-jny5678
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	9
Catagolue-generated RLE	pulsarquadrant_synth.rle
Uploaded synthesis RLE	pulsarquadrant_synth.rle
Pattern files
Plaintext	pulsarquadrant.cells
RLE	pulsarquadrant.rle
Identifiers
apgcode	xp3_4s3ia4oggzw12e
Pentadecathlon ID	18P3.39

Pulsar quadrant (or pulse) is a period-3 oscillator that was found by David Buckingham in July 1973.^[1] It consists of a quarter of the outer part of a pulsar stabilized by a cis-fuse with two tails.

Commonness

Information on this oscillator's natural occurrence with respect to other naturally-occurring patterns is currently unknown.