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Conway's Game of Life is a cellular automaton that is played on a 2D square grid. Each square (or "cell") on the grid can be either alive or dead, and they evolve according to the following rules: Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies (referred to as underpopulation). Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies ...
B0123478/S01234678. Conway's Game of Life, also known as the Game of Life or simply Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is the best-known example of a cellular automaton. The "game" is actually a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, needing ...
A negative spaceship is a type of signal traveling through a periodic agar such as zebra stripes. The leading edge of the signal removes the agar, and the trailing edge rebuilds the agar some time later. The distance between the two edges is sometimes adjustable, as shown in lightspeed bubble. The central part of the "spaceship" may consist of ...
Gun. A gun is a stationary pattern that repeatedly emits spaceships (or rakes) forever. By far the most common type of guns are glider guns, which emit gliders (the most well-known of which is the Gosper glider gun); however, guns that emit spaceships of many other speeds, including c/2 orthogonal, 2c/5 orthogonal, and c/12 diagonal, have also ...
Eppstein ID. 115. For other meanings of the term 'glider', see Glider (disambiguation). For other uses of 'G', see G (induction coil). The glider (or featherweight spaceship [1]) is the smallest, most common, and first-discovered spaceship in Game of Life. It travels diagonally across the grid at a speed of c/4.
Sir Robin is the first elementary knightship in Conway's Game of Life, and the only elementary knightship in that rule until the discovery of the sprayer. A scientific paper describing the method used to find the ship is forthcoming. [3] Sir Robin was voted Pattern of the Year for 2018 on the ConwayLife.com forums. [4]
Publication year: 2022. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6097284. ISBN: 978-1-794-81696-1. Pages: 492. Dimensions: US letter (8.5 × 11 in) Physical book: Hardcover, color printing, roughly the size and weight of a ream of US letter paper. A textbook for mathematical aspects of Conway's Game of Life and methods of pattern construction.
Spaceship. The lightweight spaceship in Conway's Game of Life. A spaceship (also referred to as a glider [1], or less commonly a fish [2], and commonly shortened to "ship") is a finite pattern that returns to its initial state after a number of generations (known as its period) but in a different location.
max.rle. Max is a spacefiller that was found by Tim Coe [1] in October 1995 that fills the plane with zebra stripes. In terms of its 187 cells, it was formerly tied with spacefiller 2 as the smallest known spacefiller, and in terms of its 27 × 27 bounding box it was the outright smallest for many years. [2]
Pentadecathlon ID. 3P2.1. The blinker is the smallest and most common oscillator, found by John Conway in 1969. It is one of only a handful of known oscillators that is a polyomino, and it is the only known finite oscillator that is one cell thick (although the pentadecathlon is "almost" one cell thick in that there is a one cell thick pattern ...