Toaster
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| Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||
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Toaster (or lightweight volcano) is a period-5 oscillator that was found by Dean Hickerson on April 1, 1992[1] 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.[2]
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See also
References
- ↑ Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
- ↑ Apple Bottom (April 27, 2018). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Toaster at the Life Lexicon
- 54P5.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Oscillators with 54 cells
- Patterns with 54 cells
- Patterns found by Dean Hickerson
- Patterns found in 1992
- Oscillators
- Periodic objects with minimum population 54
- Volcano variants
- Oscillators with period 5
- Oscillators with mod 5
- Oscillators with heat 21
- Oscillators with volatility 0.54
- Oscillators with strict volatility 0.54
- Patterns with bilateral orthogonal symmetry
- Sparkers
- Sparkers with period 5
- Dot sparkers
- Strong sparkers
