Acorn
methuselah
Seven cells that take 5,206 generations to stabilise, ending as 633 cells spread over a huge area. Charles Corderman's classic dem…
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The house catalogue of classic patterns plus everything the community has saved. Every tile is a live simulation - open any of them in the Lab and take them apart.
R-pentomino
methuselah
Five cells that refuse to settle. It runs for 1,103 generations, throws off six gliders, and finishes as 116 cells of debris. Conw…
B-heptomino
methuselah
A seven-cell fragment that appears constantly inside larger reactions. It runs 148 generations and leaves a glider behind - which …
Bunnies
methuselah
A nine-cell methuselah that runs for 17,332 generations - one better than Rabbits, which is exactly the sort of margin this hobby …
Diehard
methuselah
Seven cells that vanish completely after exactly 130 generations. No pattern of seven or fewer cells is known to last longer befor…
Herschel
methuselah
Named by Conway for its resemblance to a symbol used by William Herschel. Herschel tracks - long chains of still lifes that shuttl…
Rabbits
methuselah
Nine cells, 17,331 generations. Found by Andrew Trevorrow in 1986 and one of the longest-lived small methuselahs known.
Thunderbird
methuselah
A simple, symmetric starter that runs for 243 generations.