| 25P3H1.life |
25P3H1V0. |
| blocker.life |
Blocker is a period 8 oscillator found by Robert Wainwright. |
| boatTie.life |
Boat-tie (or bi-boat) is a small still life whose name is a pun on 'bow tie'. |
| bookend.life |
Bookend (or hook) is generation 1 of century and an induction coil. |
| dinnerTable.life |
Dinner table is a period 12 oscillator. |
| figureEight.life |
Figure eight (or less frequently, big beacon) is a period 8 oscillator found by Simon Norton in 1970. |
| glider.life |
A glider (or featherweight spaceship) is the smallest, most common, and first-discovered spaceship. |
| heavySpaceship.life |
The heavyweight spaceship (or HWSS for short) is the fourth most common spaceship (after the glider, lightweight spaceship and middleweight spaceship). |
| octagon.life |
Octagon 2 was the first known period 5 oscillator, discovered in 1971 independently by Sol Goodman and Arthur Taber. |
| pentaDecathlon.life |
Pentadecathlon (or PD) is a period 15 oscillator that was found in 1970 by John Conway while tracking the history of short rows of cells (see one cell thick pattern). |
| pulsar.life |
Pulsar is, despite its size, the fourth most common oscillator (and by far the most common of period greater than 2). |
| rPentomino.life |
The R-pentomino is a methuselah that was found by John Conway in 1970. |
| rabbits.life |
Rabbits is a methuselah that was found by Andrew Trevorrow in 1986. |