04-13-2017, 11:21 PM
neighbour count is done with a hopper and dropper. Per neighbour the dropper will drop one item into the hopper then I count how many items were dropped and will change the cell state accordingly. I did some optimizations with it and got it quite small. The small size comes with long clock times. Because there now is only on input to the logic everything has to be serialized. I can put in some more pictures later if you want 