Snacker
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Pattern type | Oscillator | ||||||||||
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Number of cells | 40 | ||||||||||
Bounding box | 20×11 | ||||||||||
Period | 9 | ||||||||||
Mod | 9 | ||||||||||
Heat | 26.2 | ||||||||||
Volatility | 0.77 | ||||||||||
Strict volatility | 0.77 | ||||||||||
Discovered by | Mark Niemiec | ||||||||||
Year of discovery | 1972 | ||||||||||
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Snacker is a period-9 oscillator consisting of a pentadecathlon hassled by four eater 1s, found by Mark Niemiec in 1972.[1]
The snacker produces domino sparks, which can be used for a p36 toad hassler. In other cases they may be rather inaccessible due to the eaters. By putting more pentadecathlons, the snacker is extensible as shown below, whose spark is more accessible. This leads to the first period-18 oscillator, 117P18. A more accessible domino spark can also be obtained using a different oscillator shown below.
This oscillator first appeared semi-naturally in the form stabilized by fourteeners instead of eater 1s in March 2016.[2]
Gallery
![]() Additional pentadecathlons can be added to extend snacker. The alternate stabilization on the right was found by Dean Hickerson in April 1998. View animated image. Download RLE: click here |
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See also
References
- ↑ Dean Hickerson's oscillator stamp collection. Retrieved on March 14, 2020.
- ↑ thunk (March 28, 2016). Re: Soup search results (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
External links
- Snacker at the Life Lexicon
- 40P9.2 at Heinrich Koenig's Game of Life Object Catalogs
Categories:
- Patterns
- Oscillators with 40 cells
- Patterns with 40 cells
- Patterns found by Mark Niemiec
- Patterns found in 1972
- Patterns that can be constructed with 17 gliders
- Outer-totalistically endemic patterns
- Oscillators
- Periodic objects with minimum population 40
- Oscillators with period 9
- Oscillators with mod 9
- Oscillators with heat 26
- Oscillators with volatility 0.77
- Oscillators with strict volatility 0.77
- Patterns with rectangular orthogonal symmetry
- Sparkers
- Sparkers with period 9
- Domino sparkers
- Strong sparkers
- Semi-natural periodic objects