Glider
Five cells that walk diagonally across the grid, one cell every four generations. Conway's group found it in 1969 and it became the emblem of the whole field - the hacker community adopted it as their symbol in 2003.
- Category
- spaceship
- Rule
- B3/S23
- Bounding box
- 3 × 3
- Live cells
- 5
- Period
- 4 generations
- Discovered by
- Richard Guy, 1969
- Views
- 4
spaceship
c/4 diagonal
iconic
Pattern data
x = 3, y = 3, rule = B3/S23
bob$2bo$3o!Run Length Encoded - the standard interchange format. This will paste straight into Golly or any other Life program.
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