Achim's p144

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Achim's p144
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Pattern type Oscillator
Number of cells 42
Bounding box 30 × 19
Period 144
Mod 72
Heat 31.9
Volatility 1.00
Strict volatility 0.95
Discovered by Achim Flammenkamp
Dean Hickerson
David Bell
Year of discovery 1994

Achim's p144 is a period-144 oscillator that was found (minus all the blocks) on a cylinder of width 22 by Achim Flammenkamp on July 21, 1994. Dean Hickerson reduced it to a finite form using figure eights the same day. The neater finite form shown here - replacing the figure eights with blocks - was found by David Bell on August 8, 1994.[1]

It first appeared semi-naturally on May 2, 2019, in a symmetric soup submitted to Catagolue by carybe.[2]

Ian07 reduced the glider synthesis of this oscillator to 13 gliders in December, 2019.[3] This was reduced further to 11 gliders with wwei23's observations on February 28, 2021.[4] A 10-glider synthesis was found by Carson Cheng in July 2023.[5][6]

See factory for a use of this oscillator.

On October 16, 2021, iNoMed found a new "production line"[7] variant of this oscillator which can be used as a powerful active-region factory,[8][9] as well as to reduce several glider guns with period 144n.[10]

See also

References

  1. Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
  2. Ian07 (May 26, 2019). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  3. Ian07 (December 25, 2019). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  4. GUYTU6J (February 28, 2021). Re: Thread For Your Useless Discoveries (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  5. Carson Cheng (July 19, 2023). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  6. shinjuku (#4683584327) (July 19, 2023). Job triggered by Adam P. Goucher at GitLab Catagolue project.
  7. iNoMed (October 16, 2021). Message in #cgol on the Conwaylife Lounge Discord server
  8. iNoMed (October 16, 2021). Re: Oscillator Discussion Thread (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
  9. dani (October 16, 2021). Message in #cgol on the Conwaylife Lounge Discord server
  10. iNoMed (October 17, 2021). Re: Gun Discussion Thread (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums

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