Talk:B-heptomino

Highlife oddity

The B-heptomino is one of few patterns to take longer to stabilize in HighLife. With a lifetime of 228 generations, it beats the R-pentomino(dies out in 9 generations) and the Pi heptomino(stabilizes in 102 generations). How does HighLife make this unique heptomino live longer? And how does HighLife make this pattern end up with a higher population(29 vs.28) than in Life without emitting a glider at all? -wwei23 9:58 PM 9/23/2015 NY time

"Failed spaceship"

"It is considered a failed spaceship, but can be used to make a puffer 2."

What is a failed spaceship, and who specifically considers the B-heptomino to be one? Apple Bottom (talk) 21:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Types of spaceships#Standard spaceship: "Many failed standard spaceships like the overweight spaceship and the b-heptomino"

Pretty much anything that displays ship-like behaviour, but dies out or becomes something else - AwesoMan3000 (talk) 22:45, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

x = 0, y = 0, rule = LifeHistory C$2C$b2C$2C! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ STOP 64 ]] [[ PASTEMODE 3 PASTET 64 PASTE 5b$5b$5b$5b$5b$5b! 20 5 ]]

(click above to open LifeViewer)

It is also a failed reflectorless rotating oscillator. ColorfulGalaxy (talk) 11:18, 23 July 2021 (UTC)