Bent keys

	Bent keys
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	16
Bounding box	12×5
Frequency class	39.2
Period	3
Mod	3
Heat	14.7
Volatility	0.73
Strict volatility	0.73
Discovered by	Dean Hickerson
Year of discovery	1989
[show]Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B3678/S23678
Important rules	Conway Life, HighLife
# of rules	26 = 64
Isotropic rules	B3-kqy/S2-i3cjnqr – B2n34-aejn5-c678/S234-arw5-jq678
[show] Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	8
Catagolue-generated RLE	bentkeys_synth.rle
Uploaded synthesis RLE	bentkeys_synth.rle
[show] Pattern files
Plaintext	bentkeys.cells
RLE	bentkeys.rle
[show]Identifiers
apgcode	xp3_2524sws4252
Pentadecathlon ID	18P3.29

Bent keys is a period-3 oscillator found by Dean Hickerson in August 1989.[1] In September 2004 Jason Summers found a 10-glider synthesis of this oscillator,[2] which was improved to 8 gliders by Jeremy Tan in June 2019.[3] It can be extended infinitely, like the odd keys.

References

Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
Jason Summers' jslife pattern collection.
Jeremy Tan (June 7, 2019). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums

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