• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You best bet is to launch a glider at c4. I recommend:

    Pattern type Spaceship
    Number of cells 5
    Bounding box 3 × 3
    Frequency class 1.8
    Direction Diagonal
    Period 4
    Mod 2
    Speed c/4 | c/4
    Heat 4

    Historical note: An R-pentomino tracked past T = 69 in late 1969 certainly implies that the glider, and a number of other objects such as blocks and blinkers, were first seen by Conway’s group before 1970.