R-pentomino
Five cells that refuse to settle. It runs for 1,103 generations, throws off six gliders, and finishes as 116 cells of debris. Conway's group traced it by hand on a Go board before they had a computer to do it.
- Category
- methuselah
- Rule
- B3/S23
- Bounding box
- 3 × 3
- Live cells
- 5
- Discovered by
- John Conway, 1969
- Views
- 3
methuselah
historic
chaotic
Pattern data
x = 3, y = 3, rule = B3/S23
b2o$2o$bo!Run Length Encoded - the standard interchange format. This will paste straight into Golly or any other Life program.
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