Pressure cooker

	Pressure cooker
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Oscillator type	Billiard table
Number of cells	33
Bounding box	11 × 12
Period	3
Mod	3
Heat	4
Volatility	0.16
Strict volatility	0.16
Discovered by	MIT group
Year of discovery	1971
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B38/S1235678
# of rules	26 = 64
Isotropic rules	B3eiry/S2-n3-ajy – B2in34cekqtz5acikn6-ik7c8/S1234-cit5678
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	117†
Catagolue-generated RLE	synthesis
Uploaded synthesis RLE	pressurecooker_synth.rle
	†Can be constructed with 15 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files
Plaintext	pressurecooker.cells
RLE	pressurecooker.rle
Identifiers
apgcode	xp3_xgba9jz624bo2ob426zy0121

Pressure cooker is a period 3 oscillator that was found by the MIT group in September 1971. It was one of the first billiard table configurations to be discovered. Its generations have 33, 36, and 37 cells.

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