Cauldron

Cauldron
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Oscillator type	Billiard table
Number of cells	32
Bounding box	11 × 13
Period	8
Mod	8
Heat	2.8
Volatility	0.20
Strict volatility	0.18
Discovered by	Robert Wainwright Don Woods
Year of discovery	1971
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B378/S23678 # of rules 25 = 32 Isotropic rules B3eiry/S2-n3-aj – B2n34ackz5acin6c78/S1c234-int5-e678
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 63† Catagolue-generated RLE synthesis Uploaded synthesis RLE cauldron_synth.rle †Can be constructed with 15 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files Plaintext cauldron.cells RLE cauldron.rle
Identifiers apgcode xp8_xgba9jz624b888b426zy0252 Pentadecathlon ID 32P8.1

Cauldron (or crucible ) is a period 8 billiard table oscillator that was found in 1971 independently by Don Woods and Robert Wainwright. A 34-glider synthesis is known for a variation of this oscillator with a slightly larger stator.

See also

• Hertz oscillator
• Negentropy

External links

• Cauldron at the Life Lexicon

• Cauldron at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• 32P8.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs