Rake (cellular automaton)
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Rake (cellular automaton)
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A rake, in the lexicon of cellular automata, is a type of puffer train, which is an automaton that leaves behind a trail of debris. In the case of a rake, however, the debris left behind is a stream of spaceships, which are automata that "travel" by looping through a short series of iterations and end up in a new location after each cycle returns to the original configuration. In Conway's Game of Life, the discovery of rakes was one of the key components needed to form the breeder, the first kno
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Type of moving pattern which periodically produces spaceships
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_(cellular_automaton)
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2023-10-20T17:12:27Z
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