First glider discovered in a cellular a

First glider discovered in a cellular automata on an aperiodic tiling!<br><br...
Tim HuttonTim Hutton - 2012-07-26 11:54:41+0000 - Updated: 2012-07-26 21:48:54+0000
First glider discovered in a cellular automata on an aperiodic tiling!

Adam P. Goucher: http://groups.google.com/d/msg/reaction-diffusion/XPPeD3zxsEY/I3rnrhrSengJ
http://code.google.com/p/reaction-diffusion/

It works on the Penrose P3 tiling, made of rhombi. It uses the fact that the sides of rhombi are parallel to guarantee it never gets trapped in a loop. This version has 4 states and uses the Moore neighborhood (vertex-neighbors).

Inspired by the work of Nick Owens and Susan Stepney.
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Blaine Booher - 2012-07-27 14:17:14+0000
it's... beautiful.
Tim Hutton - 2012-07-27 14:57:20+0000
Robert Munafo - 2012-07-28 00:16:05+0000 - Updated: 2012-07-28 00:18:42+0000
I don't see a way to join that ycombinator site, so you might want to relay this discussion to them somehow:

http://mrob.com/pub/math/quad-grid-glider.html
thegreedy turtle - 2012-07-28 17:33:00+0000
It needs set to dubstep!
Robin Engelhardt - 2012-08-06 12:46:18+0000
now you can't be far away from proving the Riemann hypothesis...

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