#MCell 2.0
#GAME Generations
#RULE 345/2/4
#BOARD 200x200
#SPEED 50
#WRAP 0
#D Guns of period less than 4 are clearly impossible.
#D But this construction shows that all higher periods are possible.
#D The construction does not deal with periods 4 and 5,
#D so for completeness these are shown on the right.
#D 
#D To construct a gun of period n > 5 do the following:
#D   Choose a positive integer m such that 6(m+1) is a multiple of n.  For example, you can
#D   always choose m=n-1, but a smaller choice of m is possible if n is a multiple of 2 or 3.
#D   Make the still life constisting of m 5-cell crosses joined in a row.  Place 6(m+1)/n
#D   3-cell "runners" around the edge of this still life, spaced n generations apart.
#D   Add the other two still lifes in the manner shown in the two examples.
#D 
#D The given examples illustrate the two smallest periods, 6 and 7.
#D 
#D Stephen Silver, 10 May 1999
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