Blockic

For alien rules where a pattern made up of 2 × 2 blocks will forever be made up of 2 × 2 blocks, see 2×2 block rule.

A Blockic constellation is a constellation consisting entirely of blocks. Blocks can be arranged in a way that can be triggered by a single glider to produce any glider-constructible pattern.

x = 40, y = 36, rule = B3/S23 5bo$6bo$4b3o15$2o$2o2$17b2o$17b2o5$38b2o$38b2o6$33b2o$18b2o13b2o$18b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ ZOOM 6 THEME Book AUTOSTART GPS 32 T 0 PAUSE 1 T 299 PAUSE 1 LOOP 300 ]] A Blockic seed with 5 blocks produces an LWSS and 4 gliders (click above to open LifeViewer)

x = 67, y = 42, rule = B3/S23 19b2o22b2o$19b2o22b2o3$15b2o7b2o13b2o7b2o13b2o$11b2o2b2o7b2o9b2o2b2o7b 2o9b2o2b2o$11b2o16b2o4b2o16b2o4b2o$29b2o22b2o5$22b2o4b2o16b2o4b2o$22b 2o4b2o16b2o4b2o10$10b2o4b2o16b2o4b2o16b2o4b2o$10b2o4b2o16b2o4b2o16b2o 4b2o5$17b2o22b2o22b2o$17b2o4b2o16b2o4b2o16b2o$23b2o2b2o7b2o9b2o2b2o7b 2o$27b2o7b2o13b2o7b2o3$31b2o22b2o$31b2o22b2o3$b2o$obo$2bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ ZOOM 6 THEME Book AUTOSTART GPS 32 T 0 PAUSE 1 T 639 PAUSE 1 LOOP 640 ]] A Blockic fuse which can be made to burn arbitrarily slowly (click above to open LifeViewer)

See also

• Block fuse
• Blockic constellations (category)
• Life/Syntheses/blockish-and-blockic-seeds.rle from Golly's built-in pattern collection

External links

• Blockic at the Life Lexicon
• Blockic splitters (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
• Blockic Seeds (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums