Butterfly
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Pattern type | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
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Number of cells | 8 | ||||||||||
Bounding box | 4×4 | ||||||||||
Discovered by | Unknown | ||||||||||
Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||||||||
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- "Butterfly" may also refer to the period-2 oscillator more commonly called by flops.
Butterfly is a common seed evolving into the formation of two beehives seen below after 33 generations. Compare this with teardrop, where the beehives are five cells closer together.
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In other rules
In HighLife, the butterfly is part of the replicator sequence.
External links
- Butterfly at the Life Lexicon