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rake - any puffer that leaves a trail of spaceships.

relay - an oscillator in which gliders or spaceships travel in a
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replicator - a Life object which repeatedly forms copies of itself.
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rotor - the active cells in an oscillator.

sawtooth - a pattern whose population is unbounded, but doesn't tend
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search program - a program which can find certain interesting Life
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shuttle, piston - any oscillator in which some part moves back and
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space dust - a section of an oscillator or spaceship which is
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spacefiller - any pattern that grows quadratically by filling space
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spaceship - any pattern that moves, leaving no trail.

spark - any piece of an oscillator or spaceship which dies out,
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speed of light, light speed, c - traveling at one cell per
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stator - the unchanging cells in an oscillator.

still life - oscillators of period 1; stable patterns.

stretcher - any pattern that grows by stretching a wick or agar.

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synthesis, glider synthesis - method of generating a pattern using
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tagalong - a dependent part of a spaceship that can be removed
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ternary reaction - a reaction in which 2 gliders on one path and 1
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traffic jam - a traffic light hassler.  Example: traffic circle.

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tripole, short barberpole - this length of the barberpole:
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unit Life cell - a pattern with two states, which is determined by
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volcano - a p5 oscillator with a useful spark.

wick - a long repetitive line of stable patterns or oscillators that
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wicktrailer - an extensible tagalong for a spaceship.