alt Hacker NewsSomeone 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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NooneAtAll3 • yesterday at 7:24 PM
spaceship*
glider is one specific spaceship, but name for moving patterns is spaceship
herodoturtle • yesterday at 6:27 PM
Thank you ^_^
As noted by others, the title is mistaken; this is a spaceship, not a glider. (As explained in the Wikipedia article, "glider" refers to a specific 5-cell pattern discovered very early on.)
> So finally 2/133076755768 ship of starting bounding box 3707300605x1 is here
My understanding is that 2/133076755768 is the speed, in (number of cells translated) / (number of generations to repeat).