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|rulespecial = [[Conway's Game of Life|Conway Life]], [[HighLife]]
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The '''blinker''' is the smallest and most [[common]] [[oscillator]], 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).
The '''blinker''' is the smallest and most [[common]] [[oscillator]], 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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Blinker
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Pattern type Oscillator
Number of cells 3
Bounding box 3 × 3
Period 2 (mod: Unknown)
Heat 4
Volatility 0.80 | 0.80
Kinetic symmetry Unspecified
Discovered by John Conway
Year of discovery 1970

The blinker is the smallest and most common oscillator, found by John Conway in March 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 (although the pentadecathlon is "almost" one cell thick in that there is a one cell thick pattern that is a grandparent of it).

Commonness

The blinker is more than one hundred times as frequently-occurring in Achim Flammenkamp's census as the second most common oscillator, the toad.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Achim Flammenkamp (September 7, 2004). "Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life". Retrieved on January 15, 2009.

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