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- Beacon
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[6P2.2]
- Bipole
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[8P2.1]
- Blinker
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[3P2.1]
- Block
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[4.1]
- Bookend
- A seven bit inductor.
- Butterfly
-
[13P2.3]
- Casing
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The cells of an oscillator which are stable but are within the
zone of influence of a rotor.
Clock
- [6P2.3]
- Croaker
- A six-cell rotor component.Named because both rotor phases combined are the same shape as the polyominal phase
of a toad. Croakers can be combined withother rotor coponents in
several different ways.
- Filament
- A three-cell rotor component. Is the rotor portion of the light bulb.
- Flutter
- A six-cell rotor component. Two flutters make up the wing portion of the butterfly.
Flutters can be attached together components in several different ways.
- Frame
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The cells of an oscillator which lie outside of the
rotor's zone of influence. These
cells are considered irrelevant in determining a rotor's form or function, but can be relevant if they are part of a required
inductor.
- House
- A nine cell inductor which is also the third generation of the pi
heptomino.
- Inductor
- A collection of cells that will all survive to the next generation, containing no death cells, but does include a birth cell. Inductors
can be combined to create stable or oscillating
objects, or attached to other stable or oscillating objecs.
Light Bulb
-
[23P2.733]
This is the smallest object which contains the filament rotor and casing combination.
The six cell snake-like inductor can be replaced by numerous other
inductors.
- Oscillator
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An object which is not stable, but periodically returns to the same pattern in the same location.
Pi Heptomino
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A common seven bit patern which in 173 generations produces 5 Blinkers,
6 Blocks and 2 Ponds.
Pond
-
[8.7]
The most common 8 bit stable object.
Quadpole
- [10P2.1]
- Rotor
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The set of cells of an oscillator which are active in at least one generation, but not active in all generations.
Snake
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[6.1]
This can also function as an inductor to suppress a single birth cell.
- Stable
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An object which will be unchanged in the next generation. It contains no birth or death cells.
Toad
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[6P2.1]
Tripole
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[9P2.1]
Zone of Influence
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The set of cells in which a cell can exert an influence in a given number of generations. The set for generation n consists of
all the cells to which at least n paths can be traced from the cell.
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