Turning toads

	Turning toads
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Pattern type	Wick
Period	4
Speed	0
Discovered by	Dean Hickerson
Year of discovery	1989
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B378/S23678
Important rules	Conway Life
# of rules	25 = 32
Isotropic rules	B3-ck/S2-cn3jnr – B34cejk5-ajr6ace78/S234-ajknr5-eq678
Pattern files
Plaintext	turningtoads.cells
RLE	turningtoads.rle

Turning toads is a period 4 wick/oscillator that contains toads that repeatedly flip orientation. It is a p4 toad flipper. It was found by Dean Hickerson in October 1989.^[1]

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