Silver's p5

Silver's p5 is a period-5 oscillator that was found by Stephen Silver on February 17, 2000.[1] In terms of its 17 cells it is the third smallest known period 5 oscillator, after pseudo-barberpole and octagon 2. As it has no spark, it appears upon first glance to be useless. Nonetheless, in March 2000, David Eppstein found a way to use it to reduce the size of Noam Elkies' period 5 reflector. In May 2007 Mark Niemiec found a 14-glider synthesis of a variation of this oscillator that uses an aircraft carrier rather than a snake for stabilization.

Silver's p5
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Pattern type Oscillator
Number of cells 17
Bounding box 11×7
Period 5
Mod 5
Heat 8.8
Volatility 0.63
Strict volatility 0.63
Discovered by Stephen Silver
Year of discovery 2000

A version of this oscillator substituting an eater for a snake first occurred naturally on January 5, 2016, in a soup submitted to Catagolue by Adam P. Goucher.[2]

See also

References
  1. Jason Summers' jslife pattern collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
  2. gameoflifeboy (January 5, 2016). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  • 17P5.2 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
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