Big S
Big S (or large S[1] or S-spiral[2] or simply S[3]) is a simple 14-cell still life discovered by the MIT group in 1971.[4] It is produced by colliding a pi-heptomino with a boat.
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Pattern type | Strict still life | ||
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Number of cells | 14 | ||
Bounding box | 7×6 | ||
Frequency class | 13.9 | ||
Discovered by | MIT group | ||
Year of discovery | 1971 | ||
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- For other uses of 'S', see S (disambiguation).
Commonness
Big S is the twenty-second most common still life in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being less common than snake but more common than bi-pond.[5] It is also the twenty-nineth most common object on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue.[6]
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See also
References
- "Large S". The Life Lexicon. Stephen Silver. Retrieved on May 2, 2009.
- "S-spiral". The Life Lexicon. Stephen Silver. Retrieved on May 22, 2009.
- "S". The Life Lexicon. Stephen Silver. Retrieved on May 2, 2009.
- Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on June 18, 2009.
- Achim Flammenkamp (September 7, 2004). "Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life". Retrieved on March 30, 2010.
- Adam P. Goucher. "Statistics". Catagolue. Retrieved on June 24, 2016.
External links
- Big S at the Life Lexicon
- The 619 fourteen-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page
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