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The three aforementioned triangular neighbourhoods are supported in [[LifeViewer]] from build 320 using 2 states. For triangles pointing down the following neighbourhood is used on a square tiling: | |||
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Revision as of 21:25, 11 April 2019
The triangular neighbourhood is the set of all cells that are adjacent to the region of interest in a grid tiled with triangles (the region of interest itself may or may not be considered part of the triangular neighbourhood, depending on context).
The triangular neigbourhood can either refer to:
- The 12-cell triangular neighbourhood (sometimes referred to as the Triangular Moore neighbourhood)
- The 9-cell triangular vertices neighbourhood
- The 3-cell triangular edges neighbourhood (sometimes referred to as the Triangular von Neumann neighbourhood).
The triangular tiling shares its symmetries with that of the hexagonal tiling.
Software support
The three aforementioned triangular neighbourhoods are supported in LifeViewer from build 320 using 2 states. For triangles pointing down the following neighbourhood is used on a square tiling:
File:Triangular neighbourhood (radius 1).png
For triangles pointing up the above neighbourhood is reflected through the y-axis.
B0 emulation, Alternating rules and Generations are also supported.
Triangular rules are notated with an L, LE or LV suffix for Triangular, Triangular Edges and Triangular Vertices neighbourhoods respectively (e.g. B456/S34L). X is used for 10, Y for 11 and Z for 12.
TriLife.zip is available on Golly's online pattern archive, and simulates 2-state triangular outer-totalistic moore rules using 4 states, dividing each square cell into two triangles. A is used for 10, B for 11 and C for 12.
Tim Hutton's Fredkin replicator rule generation script also divides cells into two triangles, and uses T for triangular von Neumann and TM for triangular Moore.
Symmetries
- Main article: Symmetry
The triangular neighbourhood relies on a different grid than the Moore and von Neumann neighborhoods and thus features a different set of inherent symmetries when dealing with isotropic rules:
- Asymmetric (C1, 8x32, 4x64, 2x128, 1x256)
- C2_1
- C2_4
- C3_1
- C3_3
- C6
- D2_xo
- D2_x
- D4_x1
- D4_x4
- D6_1
- D6_1o
- D6_3
- D12
See also
External links
- Triangular tiling at Wikipedia