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First pattern ever discovered in CGOL?
Posted: March 4th, 2015, 5:27 pm
by Gustavo6046
What was the first (trivial) pattern ever observated by Conway & his team (that don't be the two duplexes and the dot, probably the first ones but also obviously worse ones ever)?
glider? r-pentomino? block?
Re: First pattern ever discovered in CGOL?
Posted: March 4th, 2015, 5:44 pm
by Kazyan
Conway explored a variety of rules, apparently based on the behavior of polyominoes, before settling on B3/S23. So, I'd guess the pre-block or blinker. We do know that the glider wasn't it, though; Richard Guy found it while evolving the R-pentomino.
Re: First pattern ever discovered in CGOL?
Posted: March 9th, 2015, 12:46 pm
by Gustavo6046
Please someone lock this topic, since it's purpose has been filled (and expose it in LifeWiki instead of occupying server and screen space in ConwayLife forums).