Vacuum (gun)

Vacuum (gun)
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Pattern type	Gun
Number of cells	36
Bounding box	49 × 43
Period	46
Barrels	Unknown
Discovered by	Dietrich Leithner
Year of discovery	1997
Pattern files Plaintext vacuumgun.cells RLE vacuumgun.rle

For other meanings of the term 'vacuum', see Vacuum (disambiguation).

Vacuum is a double-barreled period 46 glider gun that was found by Dietrich Leithner on February 21, 1997. It uses three copies of twin bees shuttle stabilized in various different ways to produce the stream of gliders. Its name comes from the fact that it can be extended and used to pull blocks and beehives, as shown below.

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A larger version of vacuum being used to pull blocks and beehives Download RLE: click here