Medusa

Medusa
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Pattern type	Gun
Number of cells	831
Bounding box	81 × 54
Period	28
Barrels	1
Discovered by	Matthias Merzenich
Year of discovery	2020
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B3/S23 only # of rules 20 = 1 Isotropic rules B3/S23 – B37c/S23
Pattern files Plaintext period28glidergun.cells RLE period28glidergun.rle

For the much smaller gun found in 2022, see p4-assisted period-28 glider gun.

The Medusa the Gorgun is a true period 28 gun, the first gun of this period to be found. It was constructed by Matthias Merzenich on December 15, 2020 after a long search for a compatible period-7 dot sparker. A more compact form was posted by Merzenich later that day. The reaction that produces the glider was found by Paul Callahan and Merzenich in May, 2013.