Ship in a bottle

Ship in a bottle
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	86
Bounding box	18×18
Period	16
Mod	8
Heat	45
Volatility	0.70
Strict volatility	0.12
Discovered by	Bill Gosper
Year of discovery	1994
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B378/S0238 Important rules Conway Life # of rules 24 = 16 Isotropic rules B3aijnr/S2-n3-ae – B2i34city5cei6-kn78/S0234ceijqtw5ackry6ikn7e8
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 48 (35†) Catagolue-generated RLE shipinabottle_synth.rle †Can be constructed with 35 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files Plaintext shipinabottle.cells RLE shipinabottle.rle
Identifiers apgcode xp16_g8861daowoad1688gz12174wokcx47121zcik71ggowogg17kiczx3452y02543 Pentadecathlon ID 86P16.2

Ship in a bottle is a period-16 oscillator found by Bill Gosper in August 1994.

See also

• Bottle
• Ship

External links

• Ship in a bottle at the Life Lexicon

• Ship in a bottle at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• 86P16.2 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs