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Oct 25, 2024 · The queen bee shuttle can refer to one of two period-30 oscillators (trans- version shown to the right) in which a queen bee travels back and forth between two blocks. Other stabilisations …

About the Book This book provides an introduction to Conway's Game of Life, the interesting mathematics behind it, and the methods used to construct many of its most interesting patterns. Lots …

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 …

The Pattern of the Year (POTY) competition is held each year on the ConwayLife.com forums. Users are invited to submit interesting and noteworthy patterns, their own or others'; following discussion, a …

The Game of Life is well known to almost anyone who has ever programmed a computer, yet far fewer realize the level of sophistication that has been achieved in the design of Life patterns over the past …

Mar 12, 2025 · Growth rates Infinite-growth patterns can be classified by their growth rate. In any cellular automaton, the maximum rate of growth is determined by the geometry of the space. In cellular …

Mar 17, 2023 · Pages in category "Patterns" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,740 total. (previous page) (next page)

Apr 11, 2022 · LifeWiki is a wiki designed with the hope of collecting all information about Conway's Game of Life together in one place. It contains a comprehensive catalogue of patterns as well as a …

6 days ago · The Caterpillar is the first 17c/45 orthogonal spaceship to be constructed, and is the first engineered spaceship based on a crawler with a 17c/45 reaction. It was the only known (barring …