With hashing, Golly is actually capable of running the Caterpillar (http://www.yucs.org/~gnivasch/life/article_cat/), allegedly the largest nontrivial, rationally constructed Life pattern in existence. The whole point of it was to make a "spaceship" pattern that crawls at the speed of a pi heptomino crawling along a row of traffic-light blinkers, something that had not been done before. The Caterpillar is basically a humongous mass of pi heptominoes, spaceships and gliders, with a total population of about twelve million lit cells, that lays down its own blinker tracks and picks them up again.
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Date: 2006-02-12 09:35 am (UTC)