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== External links ==
== External links ==
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Revision as of 07:50, 17 July 2023

R2-D2
x = 11, y = 10, rule = B3/S23 5bo$4bobo$3bobobo$3bobobo$2obo3bob2o$2obo3bob2o$3bo3bo$3bobobo$4bobo$ 5bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART ]] #C [[ GPS 4 ZOOM 20 LOOP 8 ]]
Pattern type Oscillator
Oscillator type Billiard table
Number of cells 29
Bounding box 11 × 10
Period 8 (mod: 4)
Heat 2.0
Volatility 0.22 | 0.22
Kinetic symmetry Unspecified
Discovered by Peter Raynham
Year of discovery Unknown

R2-D2 is a period-8 oscillator that was found in the form shown in the infobox at right, but not named, by Peter Raynham in the early 1970s. The name derives from a form with a larger and less symmetric stator discovered later by Noam Elkies in August 1994, shown below.[1]

Elkies' R2-D2 stator from 1994 (which inspired the name)

Goldtiger997 found a 86-glider synthesis for this oscillator on March 7, 2020,[2] that has since been reduced to 53-glider on Catagolue.

On 2022-11-30, the shown variant with the smallest stator appeared in a symmetric soup discovered by the Open Science Grid, albeit not in a way useful to synthesis, with the initial soup matching 50 states of the 70 cells in its minimal covering octagon and the mechanism forming entirely in one generation, with pre-blocks becoming blocks in the next.[3]

See also

References

  1. Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
  2. Goldtiger997 (March 7, 2020). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  3. the attribute page, the soup