Buckaroo
Buckaroo is a queen bee shuttle stabilized at one or both ends by an eater 1 in such a way that it can turn a glider. The glider turning reaction uses a banana spark and is colour-preserving. The mechanism was found by David Buckingham in the 1970s. Its name is due to Bill Gosper.
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| Pattern type | Reflector Oscillator | ||||||||||
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| Number of cells | 23 | ||||||||||
| Bounding box | 23×9 | ||||||||||
| Frequency class | 42.0 | ||||||||||
| Angle | 90° | ||||||||||
| Period | 30 | ||||||||||
| Heat | 16.7 | ||||||||||
| Discovered by | David Buckingham | ||||||||||
| Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||||||||
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It's also possible to reflect a glider 180 degrees with a buckaroo, with a different return glider lane and timing than the 180-degree reflection performed by the pentadecathlons in a relay.
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A variant of the buckaroo first appeared naturally on April 1, 2015, in a soup submitted to Catagolue by Brett Berger.[1]
Image gallery
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See also
References
- Adam P. Goucher (April 1, 2015). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
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