Quad pseudo still life

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Quad pseudo still life
x = 11, y = 9, rule = B3/S23 8b2o$3b2obo2bo$3bob2obo$8b2o$3bob2o3bo$b3ob2ob2o$o7bo$b3ob2obo$3bobobo ! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] [[ ZOOM 33 ]]
Pattern type Pseudo still life
Number of cells 34
Bounding box 11 × 9
Static symmetry C1
Discovered by Gabriel Nivasch
Year of discovery 2001

Quad pseudo still life[1] is the smallest pseudo still life that can be decomposed into four stable subpatterns (shown below), but cannot be decomposed into two or three stable subpatterns.[2] It was found by Gabriel Nivasch in July 2001. It consists of a single block surrounded by a hat, snake, and a 15-cell still life roughly made up of a snake and a hook with tail.

Uniqueness

Nathaniel Johnston showed on May 25, 2017 via an exhaustive computer search using Simon Ekström's still life searcher that there are no pseudo still lifes of 32 or fewer bits requiring a decomposition into 4 or more pieces,[3] and on April 5, 2019, he showed that there are no 33-bit pseudo still lifes with this property.[4] On January 9, 2020, he also showed that the quad pseudo still life is the unique 34-bit pseudo still life requiring a decomposition into 4 or more pieces.[5]

Gallery

The first stable subpattern, a hat
The second stable subpattern, a snake
The third stable subpattern, a block
The fourth stable subpattern.
Catagoluehere

See also

References

  1. 29 Pseudo-still-lifes 26 bits and larger at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page
  2. Nivasch, Gabriel (July, 2001). "Still lifes". Retrieved on March 23, 2016.
  3. Nathaniel Johnston (May 25, 2017). Re: Enumerating Still Lifes (in C) (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  4. Nathaniel Johnston (April 5, 2019). Re: Enumerating Still Lifes (in C) (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  5. Nathaniel Johnston (January 9, 2020). Re: Enumerating Still Lifes (in C) (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums

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