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#Life 1.05

#D MAX, the smallest known example of a "spacefiller"

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#D This is the fastest-growing known pattern in Conway's Game of Life

#D (possibly the fastest possible). It fills space to a density of 1/2,

#D conjectured to be the maximum density, and does it at a speed of c/2

#D in each of the 4 directions, which has been proven to be the maximum

#D possible speed.

#D

#D Population is [(t+19)^2+463]/4 for t divisible by 4;

#D .             [(t+19)^2+487]/4 for t even, not div. by 4;

#D .             [(t+18)^2+639]/4 for t odd.

#D

#D Original construction, top/bottom stretchers by Hartmut Holzwart;

#D Size optimization, left/right stretchers by David Bell;

#D Original idea, middle part, l/r stretcher connection by Al Hensel.

#D This spacefiller by David Bell, September 1993.

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