Meaning of glider gun | Babel Free

Definitions

In the Game of Life, any pattern that "fires" out gliders.

Examples

“But in one position and phase of a 2-bee shuttle (the standard glider gun), the debris evolves into a glider and sails away before the bees return.”

“Alas this transformation by itself increases traversal length of the circuit because these new glider guns are much larger.”

“In particular, since those two patterns extend their repetitions endlessly to the left and right, there is no need for a "glider gun" to provide a continuous supply of new patterns, as you suggest.”

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