Hexapole
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| Hexapole | |||||||||
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| Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||||
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| Family | Barberpole | ||||||||
| Number of cells | 12 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 9 × 9 | ||||||||
| Frequency class | 39.5 | ||||||||
| Period | 2 (mod: 1) | ||||||||
| Heat | 12 | ||||||||
| Volatility | 0.67 | 0.67 | ||||||||
| Kinetic symmetry | .cxc | ||||||||
| Discovered by | MIT group | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1970 | ||||||||
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The hexapole is the barberpole of length 6.
As a longer barberpole, it is nowhere near as common as the smallest three members of the family. It first appeared naturally on April 16, 2015, in a soup submitted to Catagolue by Brett Berger.[1]
It appears most commonly in censuses with rotational symmetry, similarly to the octapole.
All strict still lifes with a population of 23 or fewer cells, all oscillators with 16 or fewer cells, and all spaceships with 35 or fewer cells are known to be glider-constructible. A glider synthesis of this object can be found in the infobox to the right.
See also
References
- ↑ Aidan F. Pierce (April 16, 2015). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Hexapole at the Life Lexicon
- 12P2.3 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Patterns with Catagolue frequency class 39
- Natural periodic objects
- Oscillators with 12 cells
- Periodic objects with minimum population 12
- Patterns with 12 cells
- Patterns found by MIT group
- Patterns found in 1970
- Patterns that can be constructed with 7 gliders
- Oscillators
- Barberpole variants
- Oscillators with period 2
- Oscillators with mod 1
- Oscillators with heat 12
- Oscillators with volatility 0.67
- Oscillators with strict volatility 0.67
- Oscillators with .cxc symmetry