Hustler

Hustler is a period-3 oscillator that was found by Robert Wainwright in June 1971.[1][2]

Hustler
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Pattern type Oscillator
Oscillator type Billiard table
Number of cells 30
Bounding box 11×12
Period 3
Mod 3
Heat 4
Volatility 0.17
Strict volatility 0.17
Discovered by Robert Wainwright
Year of discovery 1971
The original form of the hustler
gollark: (this isn't about a single actual physical molecule or something changing, but the genes for it changing slightly over time and producing different verisons)
gollark: I guess so. If you need, say, ten changes to an enzyme to bring it from one state to a much better one, but it works much worse/totally breaks while it's in the middle of both, it's hard for it to evolve to the better version.
gollark: If one what is stuck?
gollark: I was going to say, though: with human eyes - the light-sensitive bit is behind some other stuff, and while a goal-directed human engineer would probably go "I'll just rotate this thing then", if you don't have a convenient series of changes which still leave everything working in each intermediate state, you can't really get it evolving into the new version.
gollark: I... don't really know a massive amount about this, to be honest.

See also

References
  1. Robert Wainwright (June 1971). "Lifeline Volume 2".
  2. Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
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