Fumarole
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| Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 18 | ||||||
| Bounding box | 8 × 7 | ||||||
| Period | 5 (mod: Unknown) | ||||||
| Heat | 12.8 | ||||||
| Volatility | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||
| Discovered by | Dean Hickerson | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 1989 | ||||||
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Fumarole is a period 5 oscillator that was found by Dean Hickerson in September 1989. In terms of its 7×8 bounding box, it is the smallest known period 5 oscillator. On September 1, 1995, Noam Elkies found a way to non-trivially combine two fumaroles and a blinker into a period 10 oscillator, shown below.[1]
Image gallery
 RLE: here |
See also
External links
- Fumarole at the Life Lexicon
- ↑ x-oscs-new-p001-019.lif pattern collection