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The '''traffic light''' is a common formation of four [[blinker]]s and is the most common member of the [[familiar fours]], also being the only one made from [[oscillator]]s. A common predecessor is the [[T-tetromino]]. Although it behaves the same in some important non-standard [[rules]] such as [[HighLife]] as it does in [[Conway's Game of Life|standard Life]], it does not appear nearly as frequently in many of those rules due to its common [[predecessor]]s being unstable.<ref>[http://www.tip.net.au/~dbell/articles/HighLife.zip HighLife - An Interesting Variant of Life] by David Bell (.zip file)</ref> | The '''traffic light''' is a common formation of four [[blinker]]s and is the most common member of the [[familiar fours]], also being the only one made from [[oscillator]]s. A common predecessor is the [[T-tetromino]]. Although it behaves the same in some important non-standard [[rules]] such as [[HighLife]] as it does in [[Conway's Game of Life|standard Life]], it does not appear nearly as frequently in many of those rules due to its common [[predecessor]]s being unstable.<ref>[http://www.tip.net.au/~dbell/articles/HighLife.zip HighLife - An Interesting Variant of Life] by David Bell (.zip file)</ref> | ||
Drawing a single cell in the middle of the traffic light while it is in its "+" phase will eat the whole traffic light, leaving nothing behind. Drawing a cell a knight's move away in the | Drawing a single cell in the middle of the traffic light while it is in its "+" phase will eat the whole traffic light, leaving nothing behind. Drawing a cell a knight's move away in the same ("+") phase results in a clean [[fishhook]] instead. | ||
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| Pattern type | Constellation Oscillator | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 12 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 9 × 9 | ||||||||
| Period | 2 (mod: 2) | ||||||||
| Heat | 16 | ||||||||
| Volatility | 0.80 | 0.80 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Discovered by | JHC group | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1970 | ||||||||
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The traffic light is a common formation of four blinkers and is the most common member of the familiar fours, also being the only one made from oscillators. A common predecessor is the T-tetromino. Although it behaves the same in some important non-standard rules such as HighLife as it does in standard Life, it does not appear nearly as frequently in many of those rules due to its common predecessors being unstable.[1]
Drawing a single cell in the middle of the traffic light while it is in its "+" phase will eat the whole traffic light, leaving nothing behind. Drawing a cell a knight's move away in the same ("+") phase results in a clean fishhook instead.
Two common evolutionary sequences that result in traffic lights. The one on the left takes 27 generations to complete, while the one on the right takes 24. (click above to open LifeViewer) |
See also
References
- ↑ HighLife - An Interesting Variant of Life by David Bell (.zip file)
External links
- Traffic light at the Life Lexicon
- Traffic light at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue (pseudo-object)
Categories:
- Patterns
- Oscillators with 12 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 12
- Patterns with 12 cells
- Patterns found by JHC group
- Patterns found in 1970
- Patterns that can be constructed with 2 gliders
- Oscillators
- Constellations
- Constellations with 12 cells
- Oscillators with period 2
- Oscillators with mod 2
- Oscillators with heat 16
- Oscillators with volatility 0.80
- Oscillators with strict volatility 0.80
- Patterns with complete square symmetry