Monomer

A monomer is a version of a pattern which contains only a single copy of a sub-pattern in order to produce a stable object. Examples include 66P13 and the monomerized version of 68P9, the latter of which was used to create the p9 bouncer. A version which uses multiple copies is known as a polymer. More specifically, a version using two copies is called a dimer, three is a trimer, four is a tetramer, and so on, based on Greek number prefixes.

x = 16, y = 17, rule = B3/S23 b2o10b2o$obo10bobo$3o10b3o2$b2o10b2o$4o8b4o$o3bo6bo3bo$5bo4bo$2bo2bo4bo2bo$5b o4bo$o3bo6bo3bo$4o8b4o$b2o10b2o2$3o10b3o$obo10bobo$b2o10b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART GPS 3 LOOP 9 ZOOM 14 HEIGHT 320 WIDTH 600 PAUSE 3 ]]

68P9 dimer (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here

x = 12, y = 17, rule = B3/S23 b2o$obo$3o$10b2o$b2o7bo$4o4bobo$o3bo3b2o$5bo$2bo2bo$5bo$o3bo3b2o$4o4bobo$b2o 7bo$10b2o$3o$obo$b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART GPS 3 LOOP 9 ZOOM 14 HEIGHT 320 WIDTH 600 PAUSE 3 ]]

68P9 monomerized (or 48P9) (click above to open LifeViewer) RLE: here Plaintext: here

External links

• Monomer at Wikipedia