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• Infinite growth/Snippet
  ...wer than 10 cells, so the question of the smallest infinite growth pattern in terms of number of cells has been answered completely.
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• Switch engine/Snippet
  ...engine''' is a [[methuselah]] that was found by [[Charles Corderman]] in {{year|1971}}. It is unstable by itself, but it can be used to make [[c/12 diagona ...ar the most common ones to occur from non-symmetric [[soup|random starting patterns]].
  705 bytes (105 words) - 16:38, 27 December 2019
• R2-D2 shifting p5 diamond
  [[Category:Patterns]] [[Category:Patterns with between 140 and 149 cells]]
  564 bytes (59 words) - 06:18, 5 April 2023
• 21-cell quadratic growth
  ...as since been superseded by a [[20-cell quadratic growth|20-cell pattern]] found a few weeks later. |title = Re: Small Quadratic Growth Patterns
  1 KB (131 words) - 17:52, 4 November 2022
• Toad/Snippet
  ...lators with periods that are a multiple of two because of the various ways in which they can be [[hassle]]d.
  736 bytes (117 words) - 15:33, 1 June 2022
• Block/Snippet
  ...|text=four cells}} it is tied with [[tub]] as the smallest still life, and in terms of its {{times|2|2}} [[bounding box]] it is outright the smallest. ...ruction of larger [[pattern]]s. It can be used as an [[induction coil]] as in [[block and dock]], [[block on table]] and [[block on griddle]].
  810 bytes (133 words) - 15:47, 12 October 2023
• Pi calculator/Snippet
  ...{{year|2010}}, which calculates the decimal digits of pi and displays them in the Life universe as {{times|8|10}} dot matrix characters. ...n mechanism. The complete pattern can be found in [[Golly]]'s ''Very Large Patterns'' online archive.
  704 bytes (102 words) - 05:44, 8 October 2022
• Line puffer
  ...fers appear to be completely stable and to exhibit an exponential increase in [[period]] as a function of width, although neither of these things has bee ...irst c/2 [[rake]] with period not divisible by 4 was achieved in January {{year|2000}} when [[David Bell]] constructed a p42 forward [[rake]] by means of l
  2 KB (318 words) - 16:50, 5 August 2023
• Thunderbird
  ...by [[Hugh Thompson]] in {{year|1971}} during his investigation of six-bit patterns, and named due to later resemblance to the indian emblem.<ref>{{CiteLifelin ...trical soups, but unlike many other symmetrical patterns, it is much rarer in asymmetry.
  2 KB (227 words) - 14:16, 16 November 2022
• Greyship/Snippet
  ...ew known greyships that use the [[chicken wire]] agar or more complex fill patterns.
  654 bytes (94 words) - 20:16, 28 December 2019
• Snail
  ...was the slowest known orthogonal spaceship until [[dragon]] was found in {{year|2000}}.
  1 KB (190 words) - 08:09, 16 December 2022
• Total aperiodic
  ...tern is '''total aperiodic''' if it evolves in such a way that no [[cell]] in the plane is eventually periodic. ...hifts the central glider by one [[half-diagonal]] southwestwards, any cell in the plane will be covered by infinitely many gliders on their aperiodic [[l
  2 KB (342 words) - 19:58, 13 September 2023
• C/12 diagonal
  ...one twelfth of the [[speed of light]]. All c/12 diagonal technology known in Life actually travels at some multiple of 8c/96 diagonal - no pure c/12 dia ...p is the [[2-engine Cordership]], found by [[praosylen]] on December 31, {{year|2017}}.
  4 KB (603 words) - 02:31, 10 October 2023
• Puffer
  ...ris, or a combination of stationary and moving debris; the latter class of patterns are sometimes referred to as '''puffrakes''' or '''dirty rakes'''. ..." /> In May {{year|2021}}, the first [[elementary]] [[oblique]] puffer was found: a [[(2,1)c/6]] block puffer based on the recently-discovered [[sprayer]].<
  4 KB (504 words) - 02:39, 26 November 2023
• 20-cell quadratic growth
  ...uadratic growth, surpassing a [[21-cell quadratic growth|21-cell pattern]] found on March 15. |title = Re: Small Quadratic Growth Patterns
  1 KB (122 words) - 08:11, 30 August 2023
• Teeth
  ...wn to have [[superlinear growth]]. It has since been superseded by several patterns including [[catacryst]], [[metacatacryst]], and [[26-cell quadratic growth] [[Category:Patterns involving switch engines]]
  1 KB (141 words) - 04:30, 19 September 2023
• AK-47 reaction
  ...basis for [[Dean Hickerson]]'s construction of the first true p94 gun in {{year|1990}} (this latter gun was enormous, and has now been superseded by compar See the patterns [[P94S]] and P94S2 (on the same page) to see Dean Hickerson's huge gun and
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• Conga line switch engine extender
  ...g line of [[switch engine]]s, constructed by [[wwei23]] on September 24, {{year|2020}}<ref name="post104815" /> and reduced by [[Luka Okanishi]] two days l ...onga-line-switch-engine-extender.rle}} from [[Golly's pattern collection]] in Life/Miscellaneous folder
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• 22-cell quadratic growth
  ...t [[bounding box]] record (23&times;13) belongs to a separate predecessor, found by [[Rocknlol]],<ref name="post143277" /> based on a 26&times;18 predecesso ....com/census/b3s23/sep_stdin <tt>sep_stdin</tt> symmetry] on [[Catagolue]] (found original breeder)
  2 KB (260 words) - 21:24, 16 July 2022
• Omniperiodic
  ...being {{period|41|text=p41}} in July {{year|2023}}. The last periods to be found are as follows: *{{period|39|text=p39}} (the first [[non-trivial]] example) in July {{year|2000}}
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