Glider gun, patterns, and emergent complexity from simple rules
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Rules (B3/S23)
Birth: dead cell with exactly 3 live neighbors → lives Survival: live cell with 2 or 3 neighbors → survives Death: otherwise → dies
The Gosper Glider Gun (1970) was the first known pattern that grows without bound — proving Life is not eventually periodic. Gliders are information carriers in Life computers (Turing complete!).