Beehive with hooked tail

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Beehive with hooked tail
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Pattern type Strict still life
Number of cells 12
Bounding box 6 × 5
Frequency class 21.7
Static symmetry n (C1)
Discovered by Robert Wainwright
Everett Boyer
Year of discovery 1973

Beehive with hooked tail is a 12-cell still life consisting of a beehive and an attached hooked tail.

Commonness

Main article: List of common still lifes

Beehive with hooked tail is the eighty-eighth most common still life in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being less common than trans-loaf on table but more common than beehive with nine.[1]

It is the 92nd most common still life on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue, being less common than cis-boat on cap but more common than trans-boat with nine. It is the 12th most common still life with 12 cells, being less common than beehive at beehive but more common than beehive with nine.[2]

The octo3obj database contains eight collisions with this still life occurring in the ash.

Glider synthesis

On March 27, 2007 Dean Hickerson found a 4-glider synthesis of this still life.[3] A number of known syntheses can be found in Mark Niemiec's database.[4]

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4G syntheses[3][4]
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See also

References

  1. ↑ Achim Flammenkamp (September 7, 2004). "Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life". Retrieved on January 15, 2009.
  2. ↑ Adam P. Goucher. "Statistics". Catagolue. Retrieved on May 4, 2023.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 2, 3, and 4-glider syntheses at Dean Hickerson's Life page
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The 121 twelve-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page (download pattern file: 12/12-112.rle)