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- Subject: Creating a Life Computer? How do you design?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.001047.3609@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 00:10:47 +1000
- Organization: University of New South Wales
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- Recently I read somewhere about the idea of creating a simple computer
- using Life - having gliders as bit streams, with a factory as the clock.
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- This sounds fascinating, and also quite workable, so I'd like to throw the
- idea open for discussion.
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- I suppose the best place to start would be in the design of a NAND gate.
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- Can anyone out there design a Life object which accepts two glider streams
- (At a determined clock pulse) and NANDs them? Ie if one or zero gliders enter
- at the time of a pulse, it emits a new glider, but if two gliders enter, it
- does not.
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- How difficult is it to design objects like this for Life? I'd be very
- interesting to see any references to articles relating to methods of designing
- an object in Life. How were the original factories designed, for example?
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- Please post, as this account is about to disappear into the void, and your
- email will go with it, if you send any.
-
- Malcolm
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- | Malcolm Ryan - U2119737@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au |
- | Computer Science, University of New South Wales. AUSTRALIA. |
- | "The rest of this quote is..." |
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