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x = 7, y = 7, rule = B3/S23 5bo$4bobo$3bo2bo$2bob2o$bobo$o2bo$b2o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C Still life
Pattern type Strict still life
Number of cells 14
Bounding box 7×7
Frequency class 9.2
Discovered by Unknown
Year of discovery Unknown

Half-bakery is a still life that is made up of two loaves (and makes up half of a bakery). When the term bi-loaf is used, this pattern is its most common meaning.

There is a remarkable reaction where a glider collides with the bi-loaf, displacing it by (3,6) and generating another glider in the same direction as the incident glider. The only other known reactions of this type involve stable reflectors, which have a displacement of (0,0), alongside a constellation of three blocks. This displacement reaction has enabled the construction of half-baked knightships, since there is a way to produce an extra glider using two of them:

x = 59, y = 53, rule = B3/S23 57bo$56bo$56b3o12$36bo$34b2o$35b2o22$20b2o$19bo2bo$19bobo$17b2obo$16bo 2bo$16bobo$17bo2$4b2o$3bo2bo$3bobo$b2obo$o2bo$obo$bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART GPS 60 X -15 Y 15 TRACKLOOP 290 -3/290 -6/290 THUMBSIZE 2 ZOOM 10 HEIGHT 480 ]]
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It can also act as a one-time glider reflector in various other collisions.


Half-bakery is the eleventh most common still life in Achim Flammenkamp's census, being less common than barge but more common than mango.[1] It is also the fifteenth most common object on Adam P. Goucher's Catagolue.[2]


  1. Achim Flammenkamp (September 7, 2004). "Most seen natural occurring ash objects in Game of Life". Retrieved on June 6, 2013.

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