Crystal

A crystal is a regular growth that is sometimes formed when a stream of gliders, or other spaceships, is fired into some junk.

Notable examples

The most common example is initiated by the following collision of a glider with a block. With a glider stream of even period at least 80, this gives a crystal which forms a pair of beehives for every 11 gliders which hit it.

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Under certain conditions, the same glider stream is also capable of destroying this crystal. Crystallization and decay oscillator is an oscillator which takes advantage of this creation-and-destruction phenomenon.

External links

• Crystal at the Life Lexicon