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- From: mcneely@korg16.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Alan.McNeely)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory.cell-automata
- Subject: Re: Creating a Life Computer? How do you design?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.153432.28959@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:34:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.115457.918@odin.diku.dk> torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen) writes:
- >
- >cellular automata that are much better suited for this purpose. Wire
- >World is a good example. It uses the same 8-cell neighbourhood as
- >Life, but has 4 different values per cell. These are called
- >background (.), wire (+), electron head (#) and electron tail (*). The
- >rules are simple:
- >
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- This sounds very interesting. Could someone point me to a good reference
- on Wire World?
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- Thanks in advance,
-
- Alan McNeely
- mcneely@bigb.columbiasc.ncr.com
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