Highest volatility period-3 oscillators
All known period-3 oscillators with volatility of at least 0.8. (Currently, however, all included here are seminatural except for the statorless one.)
| Rank | Name | Image | Minimum population |
Rotor size |
Volatility |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Statorless p3 | 140 | 264 | 1.000 | |
| 2 | unnamed | 24 | 54 | 0.964 | |
| 3 | sparkier 20P3 centre stabilisation |
26 | 52 | 0.962 | |
| 4 | 20P3, tetramer |
20 40 |
34 68 |
0.944 | |
| 5 | Star | 24 | 56 | 0.933 | |
| 6 | star corners and interior cross edges |
92 | 192 | 0.923 | |
| 7 | Bracket pulsar (D4_x1,C4_1) |
48 | 80 | 0.909 | |
| 8 | Bracket quasar (centre closer together) |
144 | 240 | 0.909 | |
| 9 | unnamed | 116 | 216 | 0.900 | |
| 10 | Bracket pulsar quadrant supported by blockless caterers |
30 | 54 | 0.900 | |
| 11 | cross corners and interior star edges |
96 | 176 | 0.897 | |
| 12 | unnamed | 32 | 52 | 0.896 | |
| 13 | Caterers hassling block | 27 | 50 | 0.892 | |
| 14 | Dual caterer | 20 | 33 | 0.891 | |
| 15 | Caterers sharing inaccessible spark |
26 | 48 | 0.888 | |
| 16 | unnamed | 28 | 46 | 0.884 | |
| 17 | unnamed | 34 | 60 | 0.882 | |
| 18 | Inward cross edges welded to outer cross corners |
116 | 176 | 0.880 | |
| 19 | Caterer | 12 | 22 | 0.880 | |
| 20 | unnamed | 60 | 112 | 0.875 | |
| 21 | unnamed | 108 | 192 | 0.872 | |
| 22 | unnamed | 44 | 80 | 0.869 | |
| 23 | Caterer-cross beacon hassler |
96 | 160 | 0.869 | |
| 24 | antlered caterer-like thing dimer | 96 | 0.866 | 0.866 | |
| 25 | Beacon hassler dimer[n 1] | 60 | 100 | 0.862 | |
| 26 | unnamed (cis,trans) | 28 | 50 | 0.862 | |
| 27 | unnamed | 128 | 192 | 0.857 | |
| 28 | unnamed | 96 | 144 | 0.857 | |
| 29 | unnamed | 124 | 192 | 0.857 | |
| 30 | unnamed | 26 | 48 | 0.857 | |
| 31 | unnamed | 48 | 72 | 0.857 | |
| 32 | unnamed | 52 | 92 | 0.851 | |
| 33 | unnamed | 26 | 46 | 0.851 | |
| 34 | unnamed | 96 | 136 | 0.850 | |
| 35 | Cross with weird things |
80 | 136 | 0.850 | |
| 36 | Cross 2 with separated corners |
92 | 136 | 0.850 | |
| 37 | Cross 3 | 92 | 136 | 0.850 | |
| 38 | Pulsar quadrants with caterer things (cis,trans) |
34 | 56 | 0.848 | |
| 39 | Cross with separated corners |
60 | 88 | 0.846 | |
| 40 | cross with inside-out cross 2 |
60 | 88 | 0.846 | |
| 41 | Cross 2 | 60 | 88 | 0.846 | |
| 42 | cross with inside-out cross |
44 | 64 | 0.842 | |
| 43 | two short,bent keys | 30 | 52 | 0.838 | |
| 44 | I for ill | 54 | 92 | 0.836 | |
| 45 | fragmented constant-population cross |
84 | 120 | 0.833 | |
| 46 | Cross | 28 | 40 | 0.833 | |
| 47 | unnamed (up,down) |
34 | 50 | 0.833 | |
| 48 | unnamed | 34 | 48 | 0.827 | |
| 49 | small antlerpus | 76 | 128 | 0.820 | |
| 50 | Diagonally-connected short, bent keys |
28 | 44 | 0.814 | |
| 51 | pond hassler tetramer | 88 | 136 | 0.809 | |
| 52 | beacon hassler monomer | 28 | 42 | 0.807 | |
| 53 | not a bracket pulsar | 112 | 168 | 0.807 | |
| 54 | large antlerpus | 108 | 164 | 0.803 | |
| 55 | star quadrant with bent key ends |
27 | 40 | 0.800 | |
| 56 | pond hassler dimer | 42 | 64 | 0.800 |
In describing, analysing and comparing them, it may be useful to reference the stag, a p3 oscillator working in b34zs23-a, whose "antlers" arise frequently in these Life oscillators.
Notes
- ↑ Note that due to its standard variant's barberpole-like ends, there is also a trivial dimer from two of it joined together