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Apple Bottom (talk | contribs) Calcyman used this, but I don't think the term is sufficiently well-established for prime time. |
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A '''polyglot''' is a pattern that runs in a range of different [[rule]]s, exhibiting the same behavior in all. | A '''polyglot''' is a pattern that runs in a range of different [[rule]]s, exhibiting the same behavior in all. The term is understood to be relative to a certain class of cellular automata, e.g. outer-totalistic [[Life-like cellular automaton|Life-like cellular automata]] or [[isotropic non-totalistic Life-like cellular automaton|isotropic non-totalistic Life-like cellular automata]]. | ||
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* [[User:Apple Bottom/Incubator/Endemic]] | |||
Revision as of 08:49, 20 April 2018
A polyglot is a pattern that runs in a range of different rules, exhibiting the same behavior in all. The term is understood to be relative to a certain class of cellular automata, e.g. outer-totalistic Life-like cellular automata or isotropic non-totalistic Life-like cellular automata.