Toaster

Toaster
x = 11, y = 12, rule = B3/S23 2bo6b2o$bobob2o2bo$bobobobobo$2obo3bob2o$o2b2ob2o2bo$bo7bo$bo7bo$o2b2o b2o2bo$2obo3bob2o$bobobobobo$bobob2o2bo$2bo6b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART ]] #C [[ GPS 2 ZOOM 20 LOOP 5 ]]
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Family	Volcano
Number of cells	54
Bounding box	15×12
Period	5
Mod	5
Heat	21.6
Volatility	0.54
Strict volatility	0.54
Discovered by	Dean Hickerson
Year of discovery	1992
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B38/S12378 Important rules Conway Life # of rules 24 = 16 Isotropic rules B3-ck/S2-n3-ac – B2n34ceqtz5acin6cen7c8/S1234cejkwz5-j6-ac78
Pattern files Plaintext toaster.cells RLE toaster.rle
Identifiers apgcode xp5_3iabp22pbai3z8llk6gg6kll8zx11w11 Pentadecathlon ID 54P5.1

Toaster (or lightweight volcano) is a period-5 oscillator that was found by Dean Hickerson on April 1, 1992 that produces sparks much like a lightweight spaceship on its left and right sides. A minimal change can be done to change its symmetry type.

A stator variant of this oscillator appeared semi-naturally in April 2018, in a symmetric soup submitted to Catagolue by Apple Bottom.

On November 19, 2021, Dongook Lee and Entity Valkyrie observed that a toaster can be phase shifted to produce an oscillator of period 5n+2.

Image gallery

Generation 4 of toaster reveals its sparks

See also

• Lightweight emulator
• Middleweight volcano
• Heavyweight volcano

External links

• Toaster at the Life Lexicon

• Toaster at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• 54P5.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs