Demultiplexer
A demultiplexer is a simple converter discovered by Brice Due in August 2006, consisting of three eater1s. An input Herschel places a boat in a location accessible to an input glider. If the boat is present, a one-time turner reaction occurs and the glider is turned 90 degrees onto a new lane. The Herschel conduit can not be reused until the boat is deleted.
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| Pattern type | Conduit | ||||||||
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| Conduit type | Stable | ||||||||
| Input | Herschel | ||||||||
| Output | boat | ||||||||
| Number of cells | 21 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 25×16 | ||||||||
| Step | Unknown | ||||||||
| Recovery time (ignoring FNG if any) |
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| Minimum overclock period (ignoring FNG if any) |
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| Discovered by | Brice Due | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 2006 | ||||||||
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If the Herschel is removed from the pattern in the infobox at right, the glider passes cleanly through the circuit. This glider can be used as the "0" output of a one-bit memory cell, where the 90-degree output would be the "1" output. This was the method used to store presence or absence of neighbor metacells in the p1 megacell.
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