Butterfly

Butterfly
x = 4, y = 4, rule = B3/S23 o$2o$obo$b3o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]]
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Pattern type	Miscellaneous
Number of cells	8
Bounding box	4 × 4
Static symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	1970
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B38/S238 # of rules 22 = 4 Isotropic rules B3-ck/S23 – B34ci5ejr6ci7e8/S234c5cek6-ak7e8
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 3 Uploaded synthesis RLE butterfly_synth.rle
Pattern files Plaintext butterfly.cells RLE butterfly.rle

This article is about the evolutionary sequence. For the oscillator occasionally also referred to as this, see By flops.

Butterfly is a common evolutionary sequence evolving into the formation of two beehives seen below after 33 generations. Compare this with teardrop, where the beehives are five cells closer together.

The butterfly can be hassled by oscillators; a period-15 example is buddleia.

Gallery

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  Generation 33 of butterfly (Catagolue: here)

In other rules

In HighLife, the butterfly is part of its replicator's sequence.

See also

• Butterfly hasslers
• Legs

External links

• Butterfly at the Life Lexicon