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		pohl 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long I see what you're saying, but I think it's a misunderstanding. 1D here only means that there's some state where the active cells are confined to one row — but one row within the ordinary 2D GoL plane. I'm sure the next iteration leaps off the line immediately. Search for "Blinker" here to imagine how it could start spreading off the line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

smallerize 22 days ago | [–]

Right, but that's not what adzm was asking about.

IAmBroom 22 days ago | [–]

The GP understood that.

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