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New gun 1, or originally simply "new gun", is a period-46 gun discovered by Bill Gosper in 1971. It was the second basic gun to be found, the first being the Gosper glider gun. A number of other ways of constructing a gun from two twin bees shuttles have since been discovered.

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Pattern collection

The LifeWiki contains one of the most comprehensive catalogues of patterns available on the internet. Within it you will find:
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6MB .zip archive containing the 5200+ Game of Life RLE pattern files used on the wiki
Also available: 38KB .zip archive containing approximately 75 pattern files for other cellular automata

Did you know...

  • ... that as of 2022, no finite elementary replicators have been found in Life?
  • ... that while multiple c/12 diagonal spaceships are known, all of them actually travel at some multiple of 8c/96 diagonal - no pure c/12 diagonal technology is known?
  • ... that the first p23 oscillator, David Hilbert, was created as a modification of a "troll" pattern posted a week earlier?
  • ... that exactly two years after a fake loafer-producing soup was posted to the forums on April Fools' Day, a real soup was found on April 1, 2020?
  • ... patterns have been constructed whose fate is currently unknown (based on the twin primes and Collatz conjectures)?
  • ... a pattern of 44 cells exists whose population grows by exactly one cell each generation?
  • ... it is possible to send a signal from one side to the other of an infinite diagonal line of cells without destroying the line?
  • ... there are 'Heisenburp' reactions which can detect the passage of a glider without affecting it in any way?
  • ... Corderships can be constructed using individual switch engines placed arbitrarily far from each other, that will still support each other using intermediary gliders and stable objects?
  • ... fuses can be made that burn arbitrarily slowly, based on sending spaceships back and forth between two rows of stable objects?          
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