CONWAY'S LIFE — GLIDER GUN
Gosper Glider Gun · B3/S23 · Emergent computation · Click to draw
Patterns
Glider Gun
Glider
LWSS
Pulsar
R-pentomino
Acorn
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Speed
8
gen/s
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Statistics
Generation
0
Population
0
Births
0
Deaths
0
Rules: B3/S23
Birth: exactly 3 neighbors
Survive: 2 or 3 neighbors
The
Gosper Glider Gun
(1970) was the first pattern discovered that grows unboundedly. It fires a glider every 30 generations, proving Life is Turing complete.