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| {{Oscillator|name=Blinker|pname=blinker|p=2|c=3|bx=3|by=3|h=4|discoverer=John Conway|discoveryear=1970|animated=true|life105=true|life106=true|plaintext=true|rle=true|synthesis=2|synthesisRLE=true|rulespecial=[[Conway's Game of Life|Conway Life]], [[HighLife]]|rulemin=B3/S2|rulemax=B345678/S02345678|v=0.80}}
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| The '''blinker''' is the smallest and most common [[oscillator]]. In fact, it is more than one hundred times as frequently-occurring as the second most common oscillator, the [[toad]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/achim/freq_top_life.html |title=Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life |author=Achim Flammenkamp |date=September 7, 2004 |accessdate=January 15, 2009}}</ref> It was found by [[:Category:Patterns found by John Conway|John Conway]] in March [[:Category:Patterns found in 1970|1970]]. It is one of only a handful of known oscillators that is a [[polyomino]], and it is the only known oscillator that is [[one cell thick pattern|one cell thick]] (although the [[pentadecathlon]] is "almost" one cell thick in that there is a one cell thick pattern that is a [[grandparent]] of it).
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Interchange]]
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| *[[List of common oscillators]]
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| *[[Traffic light]]
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| ==External links==
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| {{LinkWeisstein|Blinker.html}}
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| {{LinkLexicon|lex_b.htm#blinker}}
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| [[Category:Patterns with D2 symmetry]]
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