--- title: All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible | daily.dev description: A collaborative project successfully synthesized all 1,646,147 strict still lifes with 23-bit population in Conway's Game of Life using glider collisions. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/all-23-bit-still-lifes-are-glider-constructible-i95uneflo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible | daily.dev og:description: A collaborative project successfully synthesized all 1,646,147 strict still lifes with 23-bit population in Conway's Game of Life using glider collisions. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/all-23-bit-still-lifes-are-glider-constructible-i95uneflo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/I95UnEflo.png og:image:alt: All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 10 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A collaborative project successfully synthesized all 1,646,147 strict still lifes with 23-bit population in Conway's Game of Life using glider collisions. The achievement required developing optimized C++ tools like Stomp for component transfer, implementing tree-based template matching, GPU-accelerated component farming through random glider collisions, and creating "Mr. Component" to synchronize multi-part synthesis steps. The final holdout pattern required 47 steps and 178 gliders, found through unlimited-depth search with population constraints up to 32. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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