1. In the Game of Life, can you construct a glider gun of glider emission period 15? Period 20? Save your configurations as buttons in the Life model in the NetLogo models library.
2. A methuselah is a small pattern that behaves chaotically for a large number of generations before settling down into a predictable pattern. Erik de Neve found a methuselah he named Edna. It runs on a 20 × 20 grid and is chaotic for 31,192 ticks. Can you find a methuselah on a 31 × 31 grid? How many ticks does it take to settle down?