Teardrop with claw
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| Pattern type | Strict still life | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 12 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 6 × 5 | ||||||||
| Frequency class | 26.7 | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Robert Wainwright Everett Boyer | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1973 | ||||||||
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Teardrop with claw is a 12-cell still life.
Despite its name, it does not actually contain a teardrop; it can, however, be decomposed into two touching claws. The other two still lifes for which this is possible are double claw and claw at claw.
Glider synthesis
| A 5G synthesis[1] (click above to open LifeViewer) |
Teardrop with claw is known to be constructible with 5 gliders.[1] Several alternate syntheses can be found in Mark Niemiec's database.[2]
Occurrence
Among the 121 still lifes with 12 cells, this is the 31st most common still life according to Catagolue.
There are no occurrences of teardrop with claw in final patterns of collisions in octohash, octo3obj or octo3g databases.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 xs12_354qic at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- ↑ The 121 twelve-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page (download pattern file: 12/12-101.rle)
External links
- Teardrop with claw at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- 12.50 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Patterns with Catagolue frequency class 26
- Natural periodic objects
- Periodic objects with minimum population 12
- Patterns with 12 cells
- Patterns found by Robert Wainwright
- Patterns found by Everett Boyer
- Patterns found in 1973
- Patterns that can be constructed with 5 gliders
- Still lifes
- Strict still lifes
- Strict still lifes with 12 cells