Riley's breeder
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Pattern type | Breeder | ||||||||
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Number of cells | 38 | ||||||||
Bounding box | 135 × 41 | ||||||||
Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||||
Period | 140 | ||||||||
Speed | c/2 | ||||||||
Discovered by | Mitchell Riley | ||||||||
Year of discovery | 2006 | ||||||||
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Riley's breeder is a suprisingly small 38-cell quadratic growth pattern, discovered by Mitchell Riley in July 2006.[1] It comprises a puffer 2 and two LWSSes. It produces a block-laying switch engine every 140 generations, filling three eighths of the Life plane. It has fewer cells than metacatacryst, and fits in a bounding box several orders of magnitude smaller.
It was originally discovered as a 40-cell pattern, but can be backtracked two generations by replacing the B-heptomino with a hexaplet.
Generation 2000 of Riley's breeder
References
- ↑ New Quadratic Growth Puffer at Game of Life News. Posted by Heinrich Koenig on August 12, 2006.