Inflation
Inflation is the process of replacing each cell in a pattern, live or dead, with a larger m×n rectangle of cells in the same state.
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Inflation can be thought of as taking the Kronecker product of, in order, a given pattern and an m×n matrix of ones.
Uses
apgsearch 4.x (apgluxe) supports inflation of soups of arbitrary symmetry by a factor of 2n×2n by prefixing the i operator to the desired symmetry n times.
gollark: Or ~/.xprofile.
gollark: ~/.xinitrc or something.
gollark: ... Wow.
gollark: My phone only has 2 trilobytes, though, of RAM at least.
gollark: I have 8 trilobytes.
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