Blinker

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Blinker
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	3
Bounding box	3×3
Period	2
Heat	4
Discovered by	John Conway
Year of discovery	1970
Rules All rules B3/S2 – B345678/S02345678 Important rules Conway Life, HighLife # of rules 212 = 4096
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 2 Java link click here RLE blinker_synth.rle
Pattern files Life 1.05 blinker_105.lif Life 1.06 blinker_106.lif Plaintext blinker.cells RLE blinker.rle

The blinker is the smallest and most common oscillator. In fact, it is more than one hundred times as frequently-occurring as the second most common oscillator, the toad.^[1] It was found by John Conway in March 1970. It is one of only a handful of known oscillators that is a polyomino, and it is the only known oscillator that is one cell thick (although the pentadecathlon is "almost" one cell thick in that there is a one cell thick pattern that is a grandparent of it).

[edit] See also

• Interchange
• List of common oscillators
• Traffic light

[edit] References

1. ↑ Achim Flammenkamp (September 7, 2004). "Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life". Retrieved on January 15, 2009.

[edit] External links

• Blinker at Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Life
• Blinker at the Life Lexicon