Color Game Of Life Visual Exhibition

Small Gliders

David Eppstein's cellular automata web site has a page which lists The Twenty Smallest Gliders, with several rules in which small gliders are operational. Interestingly enough, the rule 3/2ab3 glider shares patterns with gliders one through four in this table.

Here the first eight orthogonal gliders from this table are demonstrated. The discoverer of the rule/glider is noted in parentheses.

Rule 3/2ab3 c/5 glider (George Maydwell):

Rule 345/126 c/4 glider (Allan Wechsler):

Rule 357/3458 c/2 glider (David Eppstein):

Rule 38/3458 c/2 glider (David Eppstein):

Rule 356/0246 c/4 glider (Robert Wainwright):

Rule 35/124 2c/5 glider (Robert Wainwright):

Rule 345/016 c/7 glider (David Eppstein):

Rule 3578/0345 2c/13 glider (David Eppstein):

Just For Fun: 20 * 38/3458 + 40 * 356/0246:

(Note the ghost colors)

Just For Fun: 40 * 356/0246 + 20 * 38/3458:

(Note the ghost colors)

More fun: glider races!