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: It specifically doesn't have a partition *named* `system`, which I believe is required.
gollark: Honestly, I have no idea, and I don't have good enough access to actually check.
gollark: I suspect it's doing something incomprehensible and eldritch, or at least not standard-compliant.
gollark: At this point I have no idea how its stock ROM manages to actually boot since it appears to somehow not have a system partition.
gollark: (well, a different Android ROM, whatever)

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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