Washing machine

	Washing machine
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	24
Bounding box	7 × 7
Period	2 (mod: 1)
Heat	8
Volatility	0.29 \| 0.29
Kinetic symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Robert Wainwright
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B3578/S01235678
# of rules	29 = 512
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	8
Uploaded synthesis RLE	washingmachine_synth.rle
Pattern files
Plaintext	washingmachine.cells
RLE	washingmachine.rle

Washing machine (or cloverleaf) is a period 2 oscillator found by Robert Wainwright no later than June 1972. It consists of four diagonal on-off rotors within a single stator.

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