Butterfly

	Butterfly
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Pattern type	Miscellaneous
Number of cells	8
Bounding box	4×4
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	3
Uploaded synthesis RLE	butterfly_synth.rle
Pattern files
Plaintext	butterfly.cells
RLE	butterfly.rle

Butterfly is a common seed evolving into the formation of two beehives seen below after 33 generations. Compare this with teardrop, where the beehives are five cells closer together.

"Butterfly" may also refer to the period-2 oscillator more commonly called by flops.

Image gallery

Generation 33 of butterfly

In other rules

In HighLife, the butterfly is part of the replicator sequence.

gollark: I was sure it was 16.

gollark: _attempts to find benchmarking stuff_

gollark: So, 10000 lines of each color, then. I assume you mean only the 16 ANSI ones?

gollark: Cursor movement and color changes, then?

gollark: Meaning?

External links

Butterfly at the Life Lexicon

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