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Hey Downvoter, did you not get it or did you think it was not contributing? This is one of the most amazing little life patterns and I hoped that it had turned up, instead there are two far more complicated patterns that have much shorter runs.<p>Try it!
Using larger grids and combining this with the famous HashLife algorithm to "compress Space and Time" (<a href="http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/184406478" rel="nofollow">http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/184406478</a>) would be awesome!