Honeycomb
- This article is about the still life. For the induction coil, see Honeycombinator.
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| Pattern type | Strict still life | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 12 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 6 × 5 | ||||||||
| Frequency class | 31.3 | ||||||||
| Discovered by | Unknown | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||||||
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Honeycomb (or super beehive[1]) is a symmetric 12-cell still life.
It can be seen as containing a photonegative beehive.
Construction
This still life is known to be constructible with 5 gliders.[2] A 6-glider synthesis was found in May 2017.[3] A 5-glider synthesis was found by bubblegum in October 2020 with a Catagolue-based random glider synthesis searching script.[4] Several known alternate syntheses can be found in Mark Niemiec's database.[5]
| A 5G synthesis[4] (click above to open LifeViewer) |
| A 6G synthesis[3] (click above to open LifeViewer) |
| An 11G synthesis[5] (click above to open LifeViewer) |
Occurrence
- See also: List of common still lifes
Among the 121 still lifes with 12 cells, this is the 76th most common still life according to Catagolue.
There are no collisions in octohash, octo3obj or octo3g databases with this still life occurring in the ash.
In other rules
As for isotropic non-totalistic rules, the honeycomb is common in S8 rules from B3i/S2cik3acy8 to B2-ae34-e5-y678/S01c2345-i678, including the outer-totalistic EightLife) (B3/S238), as a line of six evolves into one. It is also common in S2-i rules from B3i/S2ck3cy to B2-ae34-ew5-y678/S012-i345678 like tlife where it evolves from what is the phi spark in Life.
See also
References
- ↑ "Super beehive". The Life Lexicon. Stephen Silver. Retrieved on May 2, 2009.
- ↑ xs12_4alla4 at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 chris_c (May 14, 2017). Re: 16 in 16: Efficient 16-bit Synthesis Project (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ian07 (October 16, 2020). Re: Randomly enumerating glider syntheses (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The 121 twelve-bit still-lifes at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page (download pattern file: 12/12-121.rle)
External links
- Honeycomb at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue
- Honeycomb at the Life Lexicon
- 12.120 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs