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herodoturtletoday at 6:13 PM1 replyview on HN

Can someone please ELI5 what this means? Thanks in advance.


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cpfohltoday at 6:21 PM

Someone figured out how to create a glider that starts and ends as a long string of cells on a single line. Gliders are figures in the game of life that move themselves in a direction by repeated patterns that result in movement. For more game of life/glider context you can read the pretty decent Wikipedia articles:

Conway's game of life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

Gliders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(Conway%27s_Game_of_Lif...

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