Heavyweight emulator

Heavyweight emulator
x = 16, y = 7, rule = B3/S23 7b2o$2b2obo4bob2o$2bo10bo$3b2o6b2o$3o2b6o2b3o$o2bo8bo2bo$b2o10b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART ]] #C [[ HEIGHT 500 THUMBSIZE 3 ZOOM 24 GPS 2 LOOP 4 ]]
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Family	Emulator
Number of cells	34
Bounding box	16 × 7
Period	4 (mod: 4)
Heat	20
Volatility	0.59 | 0.48
Kinetic symmetry	-e
Discovered by	Robert Wainwright
Year of discovery	1980
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B378/S236 # of rules 23 = 8 Isotropic rules B3aij/S2-n3nry – B2n34-jkny5-jqy6-k78/S1c234-ar5-ai67e
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 18† Catagolue-generated RLE synthesis Uploaded synthesis RLE cisheavyweightemulator_synth.rle †Can be constructed with 15 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files Plaintext cisheavyweightemulator.cells RLE cisheavyweightemulator.rle
Identifiers apgcode xp4_c4o796zuvvzc97o4ozx11 Pentadecathlon ID 34P4.5

Heavyweight emulator is a period-4 oscillator found by Robert Wainwright in June 1980. It is the largest of the three standard emulators and produces sparks similar to those of the heavyweight spaceship.

"Heavyweight emulator" most often refers to the "cis" variant displayed to the right; there is also a less-used "trans" variant of this oscillator.

Image	Name	Kinetic symmetry	apgcode	Cost in gliders
	Cis-heavyweight emulator	-e	xp4_c4o796zuvvzc97o4ozx11	18
	Trans-heavyweight emulator	n.e	xp4_0c4o796z0uvvzo4p78cz011	18

Related sparkers

A larger but higher clearance one is shown below.

x = 18, y = 19, rule = B3/S23 8b2o$6bo4bo2$5bobo2bobo$3b4ob2ob4o$obo4bo2bo4bobo$2ob2obo4bob2ob2o$3bobo6bobo$2obobo6bobob2o$2obo10bob2o$3bobob4obobo$3bobo6bobo$2b2obob4obob2o$2bo2b3o2b3o2bo$4bo2b4o2bo$3b2obo4bob2o$3bo2bo4bo2bo$4bo2bo2bo2bo$5b2o4b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART GPS 2 LOOP 4 THUMBLAUNCH THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 ZOOM 12 HEIGHT 320 WIDTH 600 ]]

A more accessible (18 × 19, 106-cell) p4 heavyweight emulator (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here

x = 20, y = 18, rule = B3/S23 9b2o$7bo4bo3$5b10o$5b2o6b2o$4b2o8b2o$4bo10bo2$2b3o10b3o$2b4o2bo2bo2b4o $bo6b4o6bo$b6o6b6o$o5b8o5bo$b5o2bo2bo2b5o$5bo8bo$3bo12bo$3b2o10b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART GPS 2 LOOP 4 THUMBLAUNCH THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 ZOOM 12 HEIGHT 320 WIDTH 600 ]]

A much more accessible (20 × 18, 84-cell) one (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here Catagolue: here

x = 16, y = 27, rule = B3/S23 7b2o$5bo4bo3$3b10o$3b2o6b2o$2b2o8b2o$2bo10bo2$bobo8bobo$3bo2bo2bo2bo$2o2b3o2b3o2b2o$2b3o6b3o$6bo2bo$2bobo6bobo$b2obob4obob2o$4b2o4b2o$b2o4b2o4b2o$3b4o2b4o$3bo2bo2bo2bo$2b3o2b2o2b3o$2bo2b2o2b2o2bo$3b2ob4ob2o2$3b2o2b2o2b2o$3bo2bo2bo2bo$5b2o2b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART GPS 2 LOOP 4 THUMBLAUNCH THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 ZOOM 12 HEIGHT 480 WIDTH 600 ]]

A thinner but taller (16 × 27, 116-cell) variant of that (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here

See also

• Crown
• Ellison p4 HW emulator
• Ellison p4 HW emulator hybrid
• Lightweight emulator
• Middleweight emulator
• Heavyweight volcano

External links

• HW emulator at the Life Lexicon
• 34P4.5 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
• A huge collection of middleweight and heavyweight emulators (forum post by JP21)