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'''Period-24 glider gun''' is a [[Gun#True-period_guns|true period]] 24 [[gun]] discovered by [[Noam Elkies|Noam D. Elkies]] in [[:Category:Patterns found in 1997|1997]].<ref name="callahan">{{cite web|url=http://www.radicaleye.com/lifepage/patterns/p24gun/p24gun.html|title=p24 "true" gun (mail digest)|author=Paul Callahan|date=February 11, 2001|accessdate=March 17, 2016}}</ref> It uses four large [[period]] [[:Category:oscillators with period 4|4]] [[oscillator]]s (two of them variants of [[fountain]], the other two adjoined by common [[casing]]) to hassle two [[T-tetromino]]s, which react together to produce gliders. The form on the right is a reduced variant found by Karel Suhajda.<ref name="jslife">{{cite web|url=http://entropymine.com/jason/life/|title=Pattern Collections, jslife/osc |author=Jason Summers|date=December 30, 2012|accessdate=March 17, 2016}}</ref> The eater 1 can be replaced with a [[unix]] for compacting purposes, such as in earlier versions of the [[period-48 glider gun]].
'''Period-24 glider gun''' is a [[Gun#True-period_guns|true period]] 24 [[gun]] discovered by [[Noam Elkies|Noam D. Elkies]] in [[:Category:Patterns found in 1997|1997]].<ref name="callahan">{{cite web|url=http://www.radicaleye.com/lifepage/patterns/p24gun/p24gun.html|title=p24 "true" gun (mail digest)|author=Paul Callahan|date=February 11, 2001|accessdate=March 17, 2016}}</ref> It uses four large [[period]] [[:Category:oscillators with period 4|4]] [[oscillator]]s (two of them variants of [[fountain]], the other two adjoined by common [[casing]]) to hassle two [[T-tetromino]]s, which react together to produce gliders. The form on the right is a reduced variant found by Karel Suhajda.<ref name="jslife">{{cite web|url=http://entropymine.com/jason/life/|title=Pattern Collections, jslife/osc |author=Jason Summers|date=December 30, 2012|accessdate=March 17, 2016}}</ref> The eater 1 can be replaced with a [[unix]] for compacting purposes, such as in earlier versions of the [[period-48 glider gun]].
Period-24 glider gun is a true period 24 gun discovered by Noam D. Elkies in 1997.[1] It uses four large period4oscillators (two of them variants of fountain, the other two adjoined by common casing) to hassle two T-tetrominos, which react together to produce gliders. The form on the right is a reduced variant found by Karel Suhajda.[2] The eater 1 can be replaced with a unix for compacting purposes, such as in earlier versions of the period-48 glider gun.
No more than five days after the initial discovery, Elkies found a method to double the period of the gun, resulting in the first known period 48 glider gun.[1] A smaller version was found in 2016 by Tanner Jacobi, using Rich's p16 to double the period.[3]