Worker bee

Worker bee
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Pattern type	Oscillator
Number of cells	34
Bounding box	16 × 11
Period	9
Mod	9
Heat	15.6
Volatility	0.66
Strict volatility	0.66
Discovered by	David Buckingham
Year of discovery	1972
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 – B368/S237 # of rules 23 = 8 Isotropic rules B3aeijq/S23ainry – B2i34-ajn5-aq67c8/S234-ajw5-iqy6-ac7
Glider synthesis Fewest gliders 19† Catagolue-generated RLE synthesis Uploaded synthesis RLE workerbee_synth.rle †Can be constructed with 15 gliders using the reverse caber tosser universal constructor.
Pattern files Plaintext workerbee.cells RLE workerbee.rle
Identifiers apgcode xp9_32acxca23zy0cuczggkcxckggz1y51 Pentadecathlon ID 34P9.1

Worker bee (or lonely bee) is a period-9 oscillator and was found by David Buckingham in 1972. Unlike the similar snacker, the worker bee produces no accessible sparks (note the generated monominos), and is thus not considered to be very important. Like the snacker, the worker bee is extensible - it is, in fact, a finite version of the infinite oscillator which consists of six on cells and two off cells alternating along a line.

See also

• Snacker

External links

• Worker bee at the Life Lexicon

• Worker bee at Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue

• 34P9.1 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs