Glider - John Conway’s Game of Life
WEBThe smallest, most common and first discovered spaceship. This was found by Richard Guy in 1970 while Conway's group was attempting to track the evolution of the R-pentomino. The name is due in part to the fact that it is glide symmetric. (It is often stated that Conway discovered the glider, but he himself has said it was Guy. See also the cryptic reference ("some guy") in Winning Ways.) The ...
4-8-12 diamond - John Conway’s Game of Life
WEBIt is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway. This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply. Depending on the initial conditions, the cells form ...
Infinite growth - John Conway’s Game of Life
WEBThe Game of Life is not your typical computer game. It is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway. This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply.
Gosper glider gun - John Conway’s Game of Life
WEBIt is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway. This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply. Depending on the initial conditions, the cells form ...
2c/3 wire - John Conway’s Game of Life
WEB2c/3 wire. A wire discovered by Dean Hickerson in March 1997, using his dr search program. It supports signals that travel through the wire diagonally at two thirds of the speed of light. Each 2 c /3 signal is made up of two half-signals that can be separated from each other by an arbitrary number of ticks. Considerable effort has been spent on ...
4g-to-5g reaction - John Conway’s Game of Life
WEBSee the original credit page for all credits and the original download location. 4g-to-5g reaction. A reaction involving 4 gliders which cleanly produces 5 gliders. The one shown below was found by Dieter Leithner in July 1992: The first two gliders collide to produce a traffic light and glider. The other two gliders react symmetrically with ...
Acorn - John Conway’s Game of Life
WEBThe Game of Life is not your typical computer game. It is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway. This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply.
Queen bee shuttle - John Conway’s Game of Life
WEBThe Game of Life is not your typical computer game. It is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway. This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply.
Big glider - John Conway’s Game of Life
WEBThe Game of Life is not your typical computer game. It is a cellular automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway. This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a grid of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply.
Puffer train - John Conway’s Game of Life
WEBThe full name for a puffer, coined by Conway before any examples were known. The term was also applied specifically to the classic puffer train found by Bill Gosper and shown below. This is very dirty, and the tail does not stabilize until generation 5533. It consists of a B-heptomino (shown here one generation before the standard form) escorted by two LWSS. (This was the second known puffer ...