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Herschel

Named by Conway for its resemblance to a symbol used by William Herschel. Herschel tracks - long chains of still lifes that shuttle a Herschel around a circuit - are the backbone of large-scale Life circuitry.

B3/S23 live simulation — not a recording
Category
methuselah
Rule
B3/S23
Bounding box
3 × 4
Live cells
7
Discovered by
John Conway
Views
3
methuselah engineering
Pattern data
x = 3, y = 4, rule = B3/S23
o$3o$obo$2bo!

Run Length Encoded - the standard interchange format. This will paste straight into Golly or any other Life program.

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