[eig]

Is there a visualization of the glider in the thread? Would love to see how it evolves with one dimension being time.

[pavel_lishin]

My understanding (which could be wildly wrong, I only skimmed the thread) is that it's running in a standard 2-dimensional Game of Life grid, it just happens to start out as a 1x3.7B cell line.

[IAmBroom]

Pretty sure the GOL grid has more than one of those lines...

[creatonez]

The best way to run it is in the software Golly. It has the HashLife algorithm needed to make it run fast enough to see it finish.

[sebzim4500]

After the first step it isn't 1D any more, so I don't think that visualization is possible

[AlotOfReading]

It's possible. It'd just be a 3D visualization and more importantly, stupendously huge. If each cell was a cubic millimeter, the shape would be 3700km wide, and stretch 1/3rd of the way to the moon.