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title = "Quickfacts - Automata Model"
date = 2026-06-01
description = "Building an automata based model for factorio"
draft = true

[taxonomies]
categories = ["Programming"]
tags = ["Factorio", "Rust"]

[extra]
toc = true
+++

Testing

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# Idea
Each machine, on its own, can be represented as some kind of automaton.
These types of automata, have special input and output transitions.

Combining two machines into a larger system, means "synchronizing" the two automata, based on their input/output transitions.
So if one machine acts as the input for the other, then they synchronize at their respective input/output edges and then continue running independently.

# Example 
{% mermaid() %}
graph LR 
    S --Output--> S
{% end %}
{% mermaid() %}
graph LR 
    S --Input--> 1
    1 --'-'--> 1
{% end %}

{% mermaid() %}
graph LR 
    S --'-'--> 1
{% end %}
{% mermaid() %}
graph LR 
    S --'-'--> 1
{% end %}

```
1: 'Output'----
2 'Input'----
3: ----'Output'
4: ----'Input'
```