Beacon on long hook

	Cis-beacon up on long hook
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Family	Beacon
Number of cells	14
Bounding box	5×8, 6×8, or 7×8
Frequency class	30.6
Period	2
Mod	2
Heat	2
Volatility	0.13
Strict volatility	0.13
Rotor type	Diagonal on-off
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B3/S23 – B3678/S01235678
Important rules	Conway Life, HighLife
# of rules	29 = 512
Isotropic rules	B3a/S2-cn3anr – B2ik34-ainw5-qr678/S01234-q5678
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	6
RLE	cisbeaconupandlonghook_synth.rle
Pattern files
Plaintext	cisbeaconupandlonghook.cells
RLE	cisbeaconupandlonghook.rle
Identifiers
apgcode	xp2_3hu0og26
Pentadecathlon ID	14P2.8

Beacon on long hook may refer to any of four similar period 2 oscillators composed of a beacon on a long hook. They are cis-beacon down on long hook, cis-beacon up on long hook (pictured to the right), trans-beacon down on long hook and trans-beacon up on long hook.

Commonness

The four isomers of beacon on long hook are about the 35th, 31st, 40th and 50th most common naturally-occurring oscillators in Achim Flammenkamp's census, respectively.^[1]