B-52 bomber

The B-52 bomber is a period 104 double-barrelled glider gun. It uses two blockers, two molds, two blocks and two tubs to hassle a B-heptomino as a shuttle, and thus emits one glider every 52 generations. It was found by Noam Elkies on March 21, 1996, except that Elkies used two more blockers in place of the two molds. This smaller version was found by David Bell later the same month.

B-52 bomber
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Pattern type Gun
Number of cells 85
Bounding box 39×21
Period 104
Barrels 2
Discovered by Noam Elkies
David Bell
Year of discovery 1996
For other uses of the term 'bomber', see Bomber (disambiguation).

Its name comes from the war plane in the U.S. Air Force.

On June 11, 2019, Jeremy Tan found a 31-glider synthesis for this gun.[1]

See also

References
  1. Jeremy Tan (June 11, 2019). Re: Synthesising Oscillators (discussion thread) at the ConwayLife.com forums
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