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This eater can be constructed using a simple two-glider collision, as shown in stamp collection. It is often modified in various ways, or welded to other objects, to allow tighter packing of circuits or to allow a signal stream to pass close by. See clearance for an eater1 variant that is 1hd shorter to the southeast than the standard fishhook form. An eater1 can also be used as a 90-degree one-time turner.
Its ability to eat various objects was discovered by Bill Gosper in 1971. The fishhook eater can consume a glider, a LWSS, and a MWSS as shown below. It is not able to consume an HWSS, however. See honey bit or killer toads for that.
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.
Each cell with one or no neighbors dies, as if by solitude.
Each cell with four or more neighbors dies, as if by overpopulation.
Each cell with two or three neighbors survives.
Each cell with three neighbors becomes populated.
Video’s about the Game of Life
Interesting articles about John Conway
Implemented by Edwin Martin <edwin@bitstorm.org>