Breeder 1
Breeder 1, or lobster, is the first breeder, and in fact the first pattern to exhibit quadratic growth, that was found in Conway's Game of Life. It was found by Bill Gosper in the early 1970s[1], and is a puffer that produces Gosper glider guns. Many smaller patterns, known as spacefillers, have since been found that grow quadratically more quickly.
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Pattern type | Breeder | ||||||
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Number of cells | 4060 | ||||||
Bounding box | 749×338 | ||||||
Direction | Orthogonal | ||||||
Period | 64 | ||||||
Speed | c/2 | ||||||
Discovered by | Bill Gosper | ||||||
Year of discovery | Unknown | ||||||
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Image gallery
![]() Breeder 1 at generation 1000 |
Videos
gollark: I guess you can just clone yourself *normally*.
gollark: Admittedly, getting a human-genome-sized sequence made might slightly cost all money.
gollark: I mean, alternatively, just "borrow" some egg cells and swap out the DNA.
gollark: Probably.
gollark: Wrong, and also you can just get arbitrary nucleotide sequences converted into DNA/RNA nowadays.
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