It's rare for the output of a factory to change the phase of that same factory, making a different-period oscillator, but that's what is happening here:Donald Fe Trump wrote: ↑March 3rd, 2021, 10:55 pmWhy could the Oscillator's Period and the Factory's period be different?MathAndCode wrote: ↑March 1st, 2021, 11:10 pmHere's a p73 oscillator:It can also be viewed as a p82 block factory.Code: Select all
x = 9, y = 9, rule = Symbiosis A$.B2.A$4.2B2.A$4.B2.BA$8.B$7.2B$7.B$8.A$6.AB!
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x = 29, y = 21, rule = Symbiosis
A19.A$.B2.A16.B2.A$4.2B2.A15.2B2.A$4.2B.BA15.2B.BA$8.B19.B$7.2B18.2B$
7.B19.B$8.A19.A$6.AB18.AB4$20.BA$19.A$20.B$19.2B$19.B$19.AB.2B$19.A2.
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MathAndCode's p148 example from the same post, where the oscillator and factory periods are the same, is an example of a keeper reaction rather than a standard factory. It should really be labeled as a "pre-traffic-light factory", I think.
Yes. In plain Conway's Life that is what usually happens to a factory if its output is not consumed by some external reaction. The third sentence in the LifeWiki (or Life Lexicon) definition of factory explains this.
Please try a little harder to answer some questions for yourself, for example by looking up terms such as Glider (disambiguation) in the LifeWiki. That will allow you to ask more specific and interesting questions, like what exactly you don't understand about the definitions that are already readily available on the wiki. Posting questions just for the sake of posting questions can be something of a waste of everyone's time.Also, What is a Glider?