Washing machine
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| Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||||
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| Oscillator type | Billiard table | ||||||||
| Number of cells | 24 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 7 × 7 | ||||||||
| Frequency class | 41.4 | ||||||||
| Period | 2 (mod: 1) | ||||||||
| Heat | 8 | ||||||||
| Volatility | 0.29 | 0.29 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | xc*c | ||||||||
| Rotor type | Diagonal on-off | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Robert Wainwright | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||||||
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- For other uses of "cloverleaf", see Cloverleaf (disambiguation).
Washing machine (or cloverleaf) is a period-2 oscillator found by Robert Wainwright no later than June 1972.[1] It consists of four diagonal on-off rotors within a single stator.
It is the fifty-sixth most common object on Catagolue in the symmetry the object has (D4_x1), making it the fourth most common period-2 oscillator in that symmetry, but it is much rarer in asymmetric soups.
In other rules
Washing machine is much more common in Grounded Life (B35/S23), even in asymmetric soups. It is the 56th most common object in asymmetric soups and the 21st most common object in D4_x1 soups.
| Typical formation of a washing machine with a bun (Which evolves to the fleet sequence) and a bakery sequence, that does not work in Life. This also highlights the fact that washing machines tend to form with beacons. (click above to open LifeViewer) |
References
- ↑ Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
External links
- Washing machine at the Life Lexicon
- Washing machine at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- 24P2.3664 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Patterns with Catagolue frequency class 41
- Natural periodic objects
- Oscillators with 24 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 24
- Patterns with 24 cells
- Patterns found by Robert Wainwright
- Patterns that can be constructed with 8 gliders
- Oscillators
- Billiard tables
- Oscillators with period 2
- Oscillators with mod 1
- Oscillators with heat 8
- Oscillators with volatility 0.29
- Oscillators with strict volatility 0.29
- Oscillators with xc*c symmetry
- Oscillators with rotor Diagonal on-off