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Simple Computation Using Dominos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the houses-of-cards dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When silicon fails to beat Moores law, maybe dominos can help. This guy has created a half adder in dominos as a proof of concept for domino computation. If he intends to make a full domino computer he's going to need an awful lot of dominos."

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  1. Conceptually, it reminds me of by TheCouchPotatoFamine · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A turing version of conway's game of life. But on reflection, if the "dominos" were something like charged nanotubes, then the creation of computing structures could be "grown" in a much different way then current cpu's, kind of think that's neat.

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    1. Re:Conceptually, it reminds me of by QuantumG · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Would you happen to know what the biggest grid of conway ever simulated is? and for how long? I was trying to find stats on this a month or so ago..

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    2. Re:Conceptually, it reminds me of by d34thm0nk3y · · Score: 4, Interesting

      According to here:

      Andrzej Okrasinski has found a new methuselah record holder, a 15 bit intial pattern with a final population of 1623 after 29053 generations. David Bell quickly found a 13 cell predecessor, bringing the record to 29055.

  2. Re:Domino Logic by kevinmc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here's another site with an explanation of domino logic using real dominos: http://www.pinkandaint.com/oldhome/comp/dominoes/i ndex.html