Gosper glider gun
The pattern that won Conway's $50 prize. Bill Gosper's team at MIT found it in November 1970, proving that a Life population can grow without limit - and, by extension, that Life can compute anything a computer can. It fires one glider every 30 generations, forever.
- Category
- gun
- Rule
- B3/S23
- Bounding box
- 36 × 9
- Live cells
- 36
- Period
- 30 generations
- Discovered by
- Bill Gosper, 1970
- Views
- 3
gun
infinite growth
historic
Pattern data
x = 36, y = 9, rule = B3/S23
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