Toaster

Toaster (or lightweight volcano) is a period-5 oscillator that was found by Dean Hickerson on April 1, 1992[1] that produces sparks much like a lightweight spaceship on its left and right sides. A minimal change can be done to change its symmetry type.

Toaster
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Pattern type Oscillator
Family Volcano
Number of cells 54
Bounding box 15×12
Period 5
Mod 5
Heat 21.6
Volatility 0.54
Strict volatility 0.54
Discovered by Dean Hickerson
Year of discovery 1992

A stator variant of this oscillator appeared semi-naturally in April 2018, in a symmetric soup submitted to Catagolue by Apple Bottom.[2]

Generation 4 of toaster reveals its sparks
gollark: No.
gollark: Currently it can:- set reminders- execute arbitrary code- print fortunes- say hello
gollark: Anyone got ideas for features for my useless Discord bot?
gollark: Personally, as a weird arbitrary preference, I like unrounded rectangles and flat colors.
gollark: I do not like it with UIs look like they were designed to run on tiny phone screens with touch input then transplanted onto desktop.

See also

References
  1. Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
  2. Apple Bottom (April 27, 2018). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  • 54P5.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
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