Centinal

Centinal
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Oscillator type	Shuttle
Number of cells	70
Bounding box	52 × 17
Period	100 (mod: 100)
Heat	52
Volatility	0.95 | 0.95
Kinetic symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Bill Gosper
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B3/S238 # of rules 21 = 2
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 16† Catagolue-generated RLE synthesis Uploaded synthesis RLE centinal_synth.rle †Can be constructed with 15 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files Plaintext centinal.cells RLE centinal.rle
Identifiers apgcode xp100_178cyao8gy0ccy0g8oyac871zye1m31y5322z0g8oyae972xooy079dyao8gz23yzy532 Pentadecathlon ID 70P100.1

Centinal is a period 100 shuttle oscillator that was found by Bill Gosper no earlier than 1973 and no later than 1987, being the first oscillator of this period to be discovered. It combines the mechanisms of the period 46 and period 54 shuttles. It is able to reflect gliders by 90 degrees, a property that Gosper used to construct the p1100 MWSS gun.

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Centinal about to reflect a glider Download RLE: click here

See also

• p54 shuttle
• Twin bees shuttle

External links

• Centinal at the Life Lexicon

• Centinal at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue (extended)

• 70P100.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs