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This week's featured article 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. Read more... In the news A true p52 gun is completed by a collaborative effort. Dave Greene completes the construction of a stable line crosser with a repeat time of 501 ticks. The Minstrels, a group of tagalongs for Sir Robin, are discovered. The construction of a reverse caber-tosser shows that any glider-constructible object can be constructed with at most 35 gliders. Sir Robin, the first elementary knightship in Life, is discovered by Adam P. Goucher and Tom Rokicki. The 2-engine Cordership wins the 2017 Pattern of the Year competition, with Tanner's p46 taking second place. Archive • @conwaylife on Twitter Pattern collection The LifeWiki contains one of the most comprehensive catalogues of patterns available on the internet. Within it you will find: 1118 patterns (including 465 oscillators, 113 spaceships and 218 still lifes); 2277 images (507 animated and 1770 static); Over 3000 downloadable pattern files; Glider syntheses for 408 patterns. Download pattern collection 2 MB .zip archive containing the 1500+ RLE pattern files used on the wiki

Did you know... ... that the methuselah with the longest known lifespan, 40514M, lasts for over 40,000 generations before stabilizing? The second-place holder, Fred, runs for over 35,000 ticks. ... that replicators with quadratic population growth are known to exist in Conway's Game of Life, but none have yet been found? ... that the first known period 37 and 51 oscillators were found in 2009? ... that a pattern whose population grows without bound but does not tend to infinity is known as a sawtooth? ... that there are over 6.5 million distinct strict still lifes with 24 or fewer cells? ... that some infinitely-growing patterns can be constructed with as few as three gliders? ... that quadratically-growing patterns have been found with as few as 23 initial cells? ... that the blinker is the only known oscillator that is one cell thick? ... that the first spaceship found in Conway's Game of Life that travels in an oblique direction was discovered in 2010? ... that there are still lifes that can be split into four stable islands, but not two or three?           Showing 10 items out of 92 More did you know...