Newbie fascination
Posted: October 1st, 2013, 10:06 am
while having played with GOL (on paper) more than a decade ago, I know next to nothing about it apart from the most superficial fascination; so here's my question:
I played around with a glider (?) looking like this:
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0000
x00x
(what's its name? I didn't find it in the wiki)
when I place them in a 90 degree angle, so that at one point they hit each other, in a torus universe, the result always seems to be a) full of pixels and b) periodic. is there a place to find more information about this? will it always be periodic, or did I just get lucky?
I played around with a glider (?) looking like this:
0xx0
0000
x00x
(what's its name? I didn't find it in the wiki)
when I place them in a 90 degree angle, so that at one point they hit each other, in a torus universe, the result always seems to be a) full of pixels and b) periodic. is there a place to find more information about this? will it always be periodic, or did I just get lucky?