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 | ||||||||
| Period | 2 (mod: 1) | ||||||||
| Heat | 8 | ||||||||
| Volatility | 0.29 | 0.29 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||||
| 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. It consists of four diagonal on-off rotors within a single stator.
External links
- Washing machine at the Life Lexicon
- 24P2.3664 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- 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 rotor Diagonal on-off
- Patterns with rectangular diagonal symmetry
- Flipping oscillators