Popover

Popover is a period-32 oscillator that was found by Robert Wainwright in August 1984.[1] It consists of four loaves, four blocks, four blinkers, and four mazings hassling a pi-heptomino.

Popover
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Pattern type Oscillator
Number of cells 110
Bounding box 32×32
Period 32
Mod 8
Heat 85
Volatility 0.96
Strict volatility 0.58
Discovered by Robert Wainwright
Year of discovery 1984
Generation 1 reveals that the object being hassled is a pi-heptomino
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gollark: What do you mean "emmental"?
gollark: If you actually need to use it it'll just stop doing that.
gollark: Unused RAM is wasted RAM, so OSes will cache stuff in available free memory.
gollark: So why buy two sticks? You'd have a spare one. Seems wasteful.
gollark: Isn't only one of the slots occupied by default on 8GB ones?

See also

References
  1. Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection.
  • 110P32.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
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