Airforce

	Airforce
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Oscillator type	Billiard table
Number of cells	42
Bounding box	14×15
Period	7
Mod	7
Heat	2.9
Volatility	0.20
Strict volatility	0.20
Discovered by	David Buckingham
Year of discovery	1972
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B38/S0235678
Important rules	Conway Life
# of rules	26 = 64
Isotropic rules	B3einy/S2-n3-j – B2n34ackryz5acin6-ik7c8/S01c234-in5678
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	81 (32†)
Catagolue-generated RLE	airforce_synth.rle
	†Can be constructed with 32 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files
Plaintext	airforce.cells
RLE	airforce.rle
Identifiers
apgcode	xp7_y0giligz330fg8aa21u0oozy119l91
Pentadecathlon ID	42P7.5

Airforce is a period-7 billiard table oscillator discovered by David Buckingham in 1972.[1] The rotor consists of two copies of the rotor of burloaferimeter and resembles an aircraft carrier in one phase.

Goldtiger997 found a 85-glider synthesis for this oscillator on March 7, 2020.[2]

References

Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
Goldtiger997 (March 7, 2020). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums

External links

Airforce at the Life Lexicon

Airforce at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

42P7.5 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs

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

[post90843-2] Goldtiger997 (March 7, 2020). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums