Wick
A wick is a stable or oscillating linearly repeating pattern. The essential characteristic distinguishing it from an agar is that it is one-dimensional. A fuse is a wick that burns from one end.
Conversely, a wickstretcher is a moving entity, usually a spaceship, which lengthens the segment of wick to which it is conjoined. Various combinations are possible: two stretchers moving in opposite directions could prolong a finite wick; one end could possibly be freestanding or require stabilization, a service rendered by a fencepost.
A wick could simply be infinite in extent, possibly quite convoluted in the style of a Hilbert curve. Or without any evident termination except for possibly closing into a loop.
The vex is a period-41 wick with no known fenceposts of the same period, notable because such a true-period completion would be the first period-41 oscillator.
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External links
- Wick at the Life Lexicon