Snake dance
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| Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||||||||
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| Oscillator type | Billiard table | ||||||||||||
| Number of cells | 32 | ||||||||||||
| Bounding box | 9 × 9 | ||||||||||||
| Period | 3 (mod: 3) | ||||||||||||
| Heat | 5.3 | ||||||||||||
| Volatility | 0.22 | 0.22 | ||||||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | rc | ||||||||||||
| Discovered by | Robert Wainwright | ||||||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1972 | ||||||||||||
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Snake dance is a period-3 oscillator that was found by Robert Wainwright in May 1972.[1] It has the same tub-like rotor as the snake pit 2 shown below.
Glider synthesis
A 16-glider synthesis for snake dance was found by Jeremy Tan on March 29, 2019 based on a symmetric soup submitted to Catagolue.[2] Long before that, a 6-glider synthesis for snake pit 2, which is four gliders symmetrically hitting a pre-traffic light, has been known and is listed on Mark Niemiec's page.
Commonness
It is the second most common period-3 oscillator in C4_1 (odd fourfold rotational symmetry), being about eight times as common as the third-place snake pit 2. Second through sixth place all have the same rotor.
Gallery
| Snake pit 2 (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
References
- ↑ Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
- ↑ Jeremy Tan (March 29, 2019). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Snake dance at the Life Lexicon
- Snake dance at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- 32P3.754 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
- Snake pit at the Life Lexicon
- 36P3.68 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
- 15 period 3 oscillators 26 bits and larger at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page
Categories:
- Patterns
- Oscillators with 32 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 32
- Patterns with 32 cells
- Patterns found by Robert Wainwright
- Patterns found in 1972
- Patterns that can be constructed with 12 gliders
- Patterns that can be constructed with 6 gliders
- Oscillators
- Billiard tables
- Oscillators with period 3
- Oscillators with mod 3
- Oscillators with heat 5
- Oscillators with volatility 0.22
- Oscillators with strict volatility 0.22
- Oscillators with rc symmetry
- Semi-natural periodic objects