Aircraft carrier

	Aircraft carrier
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Pattern type	Strict still life
Number of cells	6
Bounding box	4 × 3
Discovered by	Unknown
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules
Outer-totalistic rules	B/S2 – B35678/S012345678
# of rules	213 = 8192
Glider synthesis
Fewest gliders	4
Uploaded synthesis RLE	aircraftcarrier_synth.rle
Pattern files
Plaintext	aircraftcarrier.cells
RLE	aircraftcarrier.rle

Aircraft carrier (or simply carrier) is the smallest still life that has more than one island.

Commonness

Aircraft carrier is the fifteenth most common still life in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being less common than long barge but more common than paperclip.^[1]