An interesting consequence of the HashLife algorithm is that when people design patterns in Conway's Game of Life they sometimes try to tailor them to the algor

An interesting consequence of the HashLife algorithm is that when people design patterns in Conway's Game of Life they sometimes try to tailor them to the algorithm. The rule of thumb is that any repeated components should be laid out with spacings that are powers of two, and the period of any oscillations should be a power of two.