For more information on the Game of Life, please visit this site. For more information on Moore and von Neumann neighborhoods, look here.
Of particular interest is the following pattern, discovered by Alex Baker, an ICS student in the class. Draw two vertical lines-of-six, overlapping a horizontal line-of-8 so that the second-from-the-bottom pixels of the vertical lines overlapped the second-from-the-left and second-from-the-right of the horizontal line (see below). It offers quite interesting results in both the von Neumann 2 and von Neumann 3 neighboorhood functions (pull down the list where it says "Moore"), in particular in von Neumann 2 at step 42 ("the teddy cherub") and 49 ("the man in the egg"), and in von Neumann 3 at steps 8 ("the raccoon") and 16 ("sad bear with suitcases").
Starting Pattern:
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