Visual Basic Guide
Simpler Applications
Fractal Explorer
Conway's Game Of Life
Visual Basic 2010 (Windows) Guide
Conway's Game Of Life:Sample Files
Introduction
This page contains a small selection of patterns that have been previously discovered in the Life universe. Search the web and you'll find many more.
Acorn
The acorn is a Methuselah - 6000+ generations and lots of gliders.
Ants
This pattern moves across the screen in an insect-like manner.
B Heptamino
7 live cells that last quite a few generations,
Figure Eight
An oscillating pattern,
Glider
The simplest spaceship,
Gliders By The Dozen
Simple starting pattern that eventually spits some gliders,
Gosper Glider Gun
A pattern that generates gliders,
Heavyweight Spaceship
Bigger Spaceship,
Noah's Ark
Everything is two-by-two,
Pentadecathlon
10 cells in a row - interesting patterns
Quad
Nice oscillating pattern.
