[math-fun] Glider

30 Oct 2003

      Ed Pegg Jr <ed@mathpuzzle.com> reports

      Eric Raymond is advocating that open source 
    computer programmers (hackers) use the Game of
    Life Glider as their emblem.
    http://www.catb.org/~esr/hacker-emblem/

This opens up all sorts of possibilities.

Eric is claiming only the shape

  .o.
  ..o
  ooo

There are 15 others available for other purposes or organizations.
I've always been partial to

  ooo
  ..o
  .o.

which seems more upward looking.

Covert hackers might use

  oo.
  .oo
  o..

a suitably obscure glider.

NASA could adopt

  .ooo
  o..o
  ...o
  ...o
  ..o.

and the State of Utah might use

  .o.
  o.o
  o.o
  .o.

Rich   rcs@cs.arizona.edu

[math-fun] Glider

Richard Schroeppel