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Carry generator

A glider gun will exercise a counter which accompanies it; to obtain a stream of gliders requires exposing the glider cell at the left margin of its cluster from time to time. Some trial and error yields a period four gun constructed from a pair of cells, but there must surely be other viable combinations, as well as guns with longer periods.





Harold V. McIntosh
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