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From: ccb8m@viper.cs.Virginia.EDU (Charles C. Bundy)
Subject: Re: Conways 233 life
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 16:21:42 GMT
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In article <1995Aug21.173058.19831@zippy.dct.ac.uk> colinj@iris.maths.napier.ac.uk (Colin Johnson) writes:
>	Ho!
>
>: >: Didn't Conway say something about someone constructing a clock using
>: >: LIFE?
>: >
>: >I think he said that the folks at MIT made an adder using Life, and the
>: >construction worked as precisly as clockwork...
>
>	Interesting . . . might it be possible to produce a clock using
>life?? Clearly the clock would have no way of referring to "real world
>time" unless calibrated from outside, but it should be possible in
>some way to create a measure of time relative to the "speed of light"---
>i.e. the maximum possible expansion rate of a life pattern.

A "clock" is just a periodic signal. 

	I.   Construct a glider gun
	II.  Have a target (The Display) which is a counter based on
	     glider gun reception.  Counter needs to "eat" the
	     gliders as well as incrementing a count.
	III. Adjust the distance between the glider gun and the
	     Display to coorespond to seconds based on the 
	     generation frequency. (Similar to adjusting a pendulum
	     swing, no?)

Charles C. Bundy IV
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