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Pattern type	Oscillator
Oscillator type	Billiard table
Family	Pinwheel
Number of cells	35
Bounding box	12 × 12
Period	4 (mod: 1)
Heat	4.0
Volatility	0.20 \| Unknown
Kinetic symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Simon Norton
Year of discovery	1970
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B3678/S0235678
# of rules	28 = 256
Pattern files
Plaintext	pinwheel.cells
RLE	pinwheel.rle
Identifiers
apgcode	xp4_gg0g88bbgz11078c9a7066zy033

Revision as of 21:24, 1 July 2017

Pinwheel (or Catherine wheel) is a period 4 oscillator found by Simon Norton in April 1970. It is a billiard table configuration and possibly the first period 4 oscillator discovered.

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-}}'''Pinwheel''' (or '''Catherine wheel''') is a [[period]] [[:Category:Oscillators with period 4|4]] [[oscillator]] found by [[:Category:Patterns found by Simon Norton|Simon Norton]] in April [[:Category:Patterns found in 1970|1970]]. It is a [[billiard table configuration]] and possibly the first period 4 oscillator discovered.
+|apgcode      = xp4_gg0g88bbgz11078c9a7066zy033
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+'''Pinwheel''' (or '''Catherine wheel''') is a [[period]] [[:Category:Oscillators with period 4|4]] [[oscillator]] found by [[:Category:Patterns found by Simon Norton|Simon Norton]] in April [[:Category:Patterns found in 1970|1970]]. It is a [[billiard table configuration]] and possibly the first period 4 oscillator discovered.
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