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Ah yes you're so right, a 'distributed' synchronisation method could work great! I love the idea of mechanical sensing too! Would be cool if somehow the 3-neig
by danwills 24d ago
Ah yes you're so right, a 'distributed' synchronisation method could work great!
I love the idea of mechanical sensing too! Would be cool if somehow the 3-neighbour 'grow' rule could somehow involve budding off a cell from the (or one of the?) 'parents' and transitions from 1 to 0 (cell death) could actually involve the disassembly of something! : )
Since GOL doesn't consider the self-cell, there are 9 possible values for the 'total' (0 to 8), and since there's both Birth and Survival, that's 18 bits in total, so 2^18 which comes to 262,144 possible rules! That is a LOT more than I thought there were! Cool! - makes me want to explore them again more thoroughly.
- quuxplusone 21d agoI was thinking that "I come alive with 0 neighbors" wouldn't make a sensible rule: it's not reasonable to have the whole universe strobing on and off every clock tick. But "I stay alive with 0 neighbors" probably makes sense, so okay, multiply what I had said by another factor of 2 and call it 17 bits total. :)