Achim's p8
Achim's p8 is a period-8 oscillator discovered by Achim Flammenkamp on July 20, 1994.[1] In August 2004 Jason Summers and Mark Niemiec found a 13-glider synthesis of this oscillator.[2]
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| Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||||||
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| Number of cells | 18 | ||||||||||
| Bounding box | 9×9 | ||||||||||
| Frequency class | 42.8 | ||||||||||
| Period | 8 | ||||||||||
| Mod | 4 | ||||||||||
| Heat | 14 | ||||||||||
| Volatility | 0.90 | ||||||||||
| Strict volatility | 0.70 | ||||||||||
| Discovered by | Achim Flammenkamp | ||||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1994 | ||||||||||
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Commonness
On Catagolue, it is the fifth most common period 8 oscillator, being slightly less common than smiley but more common than blocker on cis-dock.[3] It first occurred naturally on August 21, 2015, in a soup submitted to Catagolue by Tanner Jacobi.[4]
gollark: But set terminal to true.
gollark: ```jsvar readline = require('readline');var rl = readline.createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout, terminal: false});rl.on('line', function(line){ console.log(line);})```
gollark: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20086849/how-to-read-from-stdin-line-by-line-in-node#20087094
gollark: Um, it does?
gollark: Locally, no idea. I'm on holiday.
References
- Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection.
- Jason Summers' jslife pattern collection.
- Adam P. Goucher. "Statistics". Catagolue. Retrieved on October 27, 2018.
- gameoflifeboy (August 21, 2015). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Achim's p8 at the Life Lexicon
- 18P8.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
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