p/3 oscillator

[jbar...@gmail.com]

I found this p/3 oscillator by accident:

..000...000..
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0....0.0....0
0....0.0....0
0....0.0....0
..000...000..
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..000...000..
0....0.0....0
0....0.0....0
0....0.0....0
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..000...000..

[Dave Greene]

> I found this p/3 oscillator by accident:

Yup, that's a pulsar --

http://www.argentum.freeserve.co.uk/lex_p.htm#pulsar

-- it shows up in a Game of Life random soup more often any other p3;
in fact it's the fourth most common oscillator overall:

http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/achim/freq_top_life.html

Here's a sample pulsar predecessor that replicates itself in 15
generations (but then the copies interfere and produce a pulsar instead
of replicating further):

.*.....*.
***...***

Keep the cheer,

Dave

[Owen Rees]

On 31 Jan 2006 03:51:37 -0800, "Dave Greene" <david.m...@gmail.com>
wrote in <1138708297....@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:

>Yup, that's a pulsar --
>
>http://www.argentum.freeserve.co.uk/lex_p.htm#pulsar
>
>-- it shows up in a Game of Life random soup more often any other p3;
>in fact it's the fourth most common oscillator overall:

It shows up at generation 4957 in the exhaust of the puffer train shown
at <http://www.argentum.freeserve.co.uk/lex_p.htm#puffertrain>.

--
Owen Rees
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[jbar...@gmail.com]

Thanks for your messages! That link has quite a comprehensive set of
objects.

Cheers