51P384
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| Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 51 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 30 × 23 | ||||||||
| Period | 384 (mod: 384) | ||||||||
| Heat | 30.0 | ||||||||
| Volatility | 0.93 | 0.41 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | n.k | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Mitchell Riley Period1GliderGun | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 2023 | ||||||||
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51P384 is a period-384 oscillator discovered by Mitchell Riley on April 1, 2023.[1][2] As the oscillator was discovered on April Fools' Day, Mitchell Riley pretended it was a p64 partial that needed to have the external blinkers removed. After it was "completed" as a p64, the fool was revealed that it was complete to begin with.
A 17-glider synthesis of the oscillator was found by Carson Cheng on the same day.[3][4]
On April 3, 2023, Anivec discovered that the p64 version of the oscillator can act as a filter, doubling the period of a glider stream divisible by 32 but not 64.[5]
On December 5, 2023, Period1GliderGun discovered that replacing the eater bridge snakes with figure eights results in a 49-cell form, which is the smallest known period-384 oscillator:[6]
| SKOP 384: 49P384 with figure eights[6] (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
Variants
| 59P64, the raw engine form of the oscillator, directly suppressed by blocks (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
The oscillator is a period-64 blinker factory that stabilizes by itself at period 384. Thus, many variants of the period-64 engine are possible by tampering with the junk that the engine produces, of which some are SKOPs (smallest known oscillators of period).
| SKOP 128: 60P128, a period doubler discovered by iNoMed[2][7] and reduced by Period1GliderGun[6] (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
| SKOP 192: 57P192, a period tripler discovered by Adam P. Goucher[2][8] and reduced by Period1GliderGun.[6] (may also have its block in another position[9]) (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
| SKOP 256: 86P256, a period quadrupler using Charity's p16 discovered by Carson Cheng[2] (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here |
| 70P320, a period quintupler using the blocker discovered by Carson Cheng[10] (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here |
| SKOP 576: 77P576, a period nonupler using 22P36 discovered by Period1GliderGun[11], reducing a version with 48P9 by Carson Cheng[10] (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here |
Guns
Many of the smallest 4-digit period glider guns make use of a specific reaction where an almost-formed block gets sparked by a dot. The base period is 192, LCMed with the sparker period. An example is shown below with meatball, multiplying the period by 7 for an overall period of 1344. Every time the block forms in the wrong generation for the glider to be formed, the block fully forms, and then the sparker cleanly deletes the block. The almost-formed block can also be created by a variant form of the smallest p80 R-pentomino hassler (see many of the 80n guns in Catagolue, starting from gun_560), a p166 R-pentomino hassler (see gun_2158), and some herschel conduits, but 51P384 is the smallest of the oscillators that can produce this block.
| p1344 glider gun (click above to open LifeViewer) |
References
- ↑ Mitchell Riley (April 1, 2023). Message in #cgol on the Conwaylife Lounge Discord server
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Carson Cheng (April 1, 2023). Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ Carson Cheng (April 1, 2023). Message in #cgol on the Conwaylife Lounge Discord server
- ↑ shinjuku (#4044778681) (April 1, 2023). Job triggered by Adam P. Goucher at GitLab Catagolue project.
- ↑ Anivec (April 3, 2023). Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Period1GliderGun (December 5, 2023). Re: Smallest Known Oscillators to p106 (and Beyond) (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ iNoMed (April 1, 2023). Message in #cgol on the Conwaylife Lounge Discord server
- ↑ Adam P. Goucher (April 1, 2023). Message in #cgol on the Conwaylife Lounge Discord server
- ↑ xp192_0qmy3g33y7oozca23y23zy4o8cy0572y4ckl3zy412x6xccy465zy0cc at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Occurred in Carson Cheng's catforce_stdin census
- ↑ Period1GliderGun (November 20, 2024). Re: Smallest Known Oscillators to p106 (and Beyond) (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
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