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From: 6600sirt@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Mike O'Brien)
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Subject: Boomerang Creators
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Date: 9 Jul 90 19:46:35 GMT
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Hello netters.

I'm not all that knowledgeable about cellular automata, so forgive me
if this seems basic.

I read an article about five years ago which told about the people who
invented cellular automata.  It said that one of their primary goals
was to find a shape that could reproduce itself, because one of the
prerequisites of life is reproduction.  Well, apparently they spent a
long time researching this, and finally came up with a pattern that
would constantly produce and send out "boomerangs".

I know how to make a "boomerang" in a life sim, but can anyone tell me
how to make a "boomerand creator"?
 
Thanks,
Mike O'Brien
6600sirt@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu