8.11. Self Check¶
- Glider Gun
- Incorrect, a glider gun is a pattern that will periodically produce a spaceship.
- Glider
- Correct, a glider is a pattern that is back in its starting position after four steps but shifted down and to the right.
- Toad
- Incorrect, a toad is a pattern that will alternate between two states.
- Gospers Gun
- Incorrect, gospers gun is a pattern that will peridically produce a spaceship.
Q-1: What Game of Life pattern is presented in the gif above?
- True
- Correct, the glider gun, or as it is called today Gosper's gun, is one of the two patterns Conway said would dispfrove his conjecture.
- False
- Incorrect,
Q-2: The Game of Life pattern that is presented in the gif above is one of the patterns that Conway said would disprove his conjecture.
- Toad
- Incorrect, a toad is a pattern that will alternate between two states.
- Glider
- Incorrect, a glider is a pattern that is back in its starting position after four steps but shifted down and to the right.
- R-Pentomino
- Correct, a r-pentomino is one of the simplest patterns that fall under the methuselahs classification of patterns. Methuselahs are patterns that are long lived and have simple starting positions.
- Puffer Train
- Incorrect, a puffer train is a translating pattern that leaves live cells in its wake.
Q-3: What Game of Life pattern is presented in the gif above?
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