Spacefiller
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Spacefiller is a noun meaning (cellular automata) A pattern that grows quadratically by filling space with still life.
Meaning
(cellular automata) A pattern that grows quadratically by filling space with still life.
More Meanings
- (philately) A stamp in poor condition used to fill a space in an album until a better quality example becomes available, or if the better example is prohibitively expensive.
Example Sentences
Spacefiller patterns might possibly even be within reach of current search programs; these would have much more predictable (and higher) growth rates from the start.
Other things that can be built (I see no reason why not) are a self-replicator, quadratically growing spacefiller, programmable computer/constructor, self-growing prime number sieve.
Word Forms
- spacefillers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gapfill, fillup, linefill, perfin, fibrefill, polyfill.
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