$rats

	$rats
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Oscillator type	Billiard table
Number of cells	32
Bounding box	12×11
Period	6
Mod	6
Heat	2
Volatility	0.17
Strict volatility	0.17
Discovered by	David Buckingham
Year of discovery	1972
[show]Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B38/S0235678
Important rules	Conway Life, DotLife, EightLife, Pedestrian Life, HoneyLife
# of rules	26 = 64
Isotropic rules	B3-acey/S2-n3-ijy – B2in34cey5cin6cn7c8/S01c234-inz5678
[show] Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	130 (32†)
Catagolue-generated RLE	rats_synth.rle
Uploaded synthesis RLE	rats_synth.rle
	†Can be constructed with 32 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
[show] Pattern files
Plaintext	rats.cells
RLE	rats.rle
[show]Identifiers
apgcode	xp6_wgbb88gz320fge8b426zy023
Pentadecathlon ID	32P6.7

$rats is a period-6 oscillator that was found by David Buckingham in September 1972.[1][2] It was one of the first period 6 oscillators to be discovered, and it is a billiard table configuration. A 86-glider synthesis is known for a larger stator variant of this oscillator.

References

Robert Wainwright. "Lifeline Volume 5" p. 1.
Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.

External links

$rats at the Life Lexicon

$rats at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

32P6.7 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs

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[1] Robert Wainwright. "Lifeline Volume 5" p. 1.

[2] Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.