English

A Gosper glider gun firing gliders.

Noun

glider gun ‎(plural glider guns)

1. (mathematics) In the Game of Life cellular automaton, any pattern that "fires" out gliders.
   • 1998, M. Delorme, Jacques Mazoyer, Cellular automata: a parallel model (page 64)

     Alas this transformation by itself increases traversal length of the circuit because these new glider guns are much larger.