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The Turbine Pattern in the Game of Life


	The Game of Life is a two-dimensional totalistic cellular automaton with Moore neighborhood, discovered by John H. Conway in 1970. Applying its rules to the turbine pattern as initial condition makes the pattern cycle back to itself in eight steps.


	Contributed by: Daniel de Souza Carvalho
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Inspired by: Good Math, Bad Math: A Metalanguage for Pathological Programming: Cellular Automata in Alpaca

Life (Wolfram MathWorld)

Moore Neighborhood (Wolfram MathWorld)

Totalistic Cellular Automaton (Wolfram MathWorld)

Four Classes of Behavior (NKS|Online)

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Contributed by: Daniel de Souza Carvalho

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