The following reaction (found by Rich Schroeppel and
Dave Buckingham) in which a honey farm predecessor, catalysed by an
eater and a block, reappears at another location 47 generations
later, having produced a glider and a traffic light. This was in
1990 the basis for the Dean Hickerson's construction of the first
true p94 gun, and for a very small (but pseudo) p94 glider gun
found by Paul Callahan in July 1994. (The original true p94 gun was
enormous, and has now been superseded by comparatively small
Herschel loop guns and Mike Playle's tiny AK94 gun.)
Game of Life Explanation
The Game of Life is not your typical computer game. It is a cellular
automaton, and was invented by Cambridge mathematician John Conway.
This game became widely known when it was mentioned in an article
published by Scientific American in 1970. It consists of a grid of
cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or
multiply. Depending on the initial conditions, the cells form various
patterns throughout the course of the game.
Rules
For a space that is populated:
Examples
Each cell with one or no neighbors dies, as if by solitude.
Each cell with four or more neighbors dies, as if by
overpopulation.
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