Gosper glider gun
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| Pattern type | Gun | ||||||
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| Number of cells | 36 | ||||||
| Period | 30 | ||||||
| Barrels | Unknown | ||||||
| Discovered by | Bill Gosper | ||||||
| Year of discovery | 1970 | ||||||
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The Gosper glider gun is the first known gun, and indeed the first known finite pattern with unbounded growth, found by Bill Gosper in November 1970. It consists of two queen bee shuttles stabilizes by two blocks. It remains by far the smallest known gun. Bill Gosper has since found other guns, such as new gun 1 and new gun 2.
External links
Gosper glider gun at the Life Lexicon