Trans-beacon on table

Trans-beacon on table (or down beacon on table) is a period-2 oscillator. A 5-glider synthesis of this oscillator was found in January 2020.[1]

Trans-beacon on table
<html><div class="rle"><div class="codebox"><div style="display:none;"><code></html>4b2o$5bo$2bo3b$2b2o2b2$4o2b$o2bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART ]] <nowiki>#C [[ GPS 2 THUMBSIZE 2 ]]</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
Family Beacon
Number of cells 12
Bounding box 6×7
Frequency class 28.6
Period 2
Mod 2
Heat 2
Volatility 0.14
Strict volatility 0.14
Rotor type Diagonal on-off
Discovered by Unknown
Year of discovery Unknown

Commonness

Trans-beacon on table is about the twenty-second most common naturally-occurring oscillator in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being slightly less common than the cis-beacon on table but more common than Achim's p4.[2]

gollark: But what was the answer‽
gollark: Something like that.
gollark: Of course, FLAC is cool and good™ as it is *lossless* audio compression.
gollark: Well, assuming those aren't just generated from lossy audio too, it might sound better.
gollark: Oh, I see.

See also

References
  1. Ian07 (January 31, 2020). Re: 4 glider syntheses (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  2. Achim Flammenkamp (September 7, 2004). "Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life". Retrieved on January 15, 2009.
  • 12P2.4 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
This article is issued from Conwaylife. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.