Octagon 4

	Octagon 4
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	40
Period	4 (mod: Unknown)
Heat	Unknown
Volatility	Unknown \| Unknown
Kinetic symmetry	Unspecified
Discovered by	Robert Wainwright
Year of discovery	1979
Pattern files
Plaintext	octagon4.cells
RLE	octagon4.rle

Octagon 4 is a period 4 oscillator, discovered in 1979 by Robert Wainwright. It consists of a regular octagon with sides four cells long and of four stabilising blocks.

References

Octagon 2 at the Life Lexicon