Swine

Swine (short for Scot's p5 with insert) is a period-5 oscillator that was found by Scot Ellison in July 2011. It had the highest volatility of any known period 5 oscillator until the discovery of the statorless p5 in June 2016. Multiple copies of the insert piece can be placed between the separated ends of Scot's p5. The inserts can match up their ends in various configurations to form an extensable oscillator.

Swine
<html><div class="rle"><div class="codebox"><div style="display:none;"><code></html>x = 37, y = 10, rule = B3/S23 33bo$9bo2b2o7bo10bobo$o2b2o2bobobo5bo3bo7bo2b2o$o10bo2bobo3bo4bo2bobob 2ob2o$o3bo4bo4b2obobo2bob2obo4b2o$3b2o4bob2obo2bobob2o4bo4bo3bo$2ob2ob obo2bo4bo3bobo2bo10bo$3b2o2bo7bo3bo5bobobo2b2o2bo$2bobo10bo7b2o2bo$3bo ! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART ]] <nowiki>#C [[ GPS 2 ZOOM 12 LOOP 5 ]]</nowiki> <html></code></div></div><canvas width="200" height="300" style="margin-left:1px;"><noscript></html> <html></noscript></canvas></div></html>
View animated image
View static image
Pattern type Oscillator
Number of cells 86
Bounding box 39×10
Period 5
Mod 5
Heat 92
Volatility 0.96
Strict volatility 0.96
Discovered by Scot Ellison
Year of discovery 2011
The red cells show the various ways that the ends match up on the four inserts.
Swine active areas
gollark: You pick a set of dimensions to keep constant and a set which should vary with each other (this is how diagonals work).
gollark: I'm not sure how else you'd do it. The current way sort of kind of makes sense.
gollark: That's not performance-relevant. They're statically generated.
gollark: I don't think it's actually hugely relevant, unless you want to make it more efficient by doing greater-depth search around "important" things on the board.
gollark: I'm glad somebody does now.

See also
This article is issued from Conwaylife. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.