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My dad was also a pirate, and I had a similar experience when I learned that you could buy VHS tapes with pictures of the lion king on them, rather than just "Lion King" in dad's handwriting.
Anyone remember Kai's Power Goo? My school computer lab had it on all the Macs
Anyways, you've found someone. Or at least someone who used to.
Unless they are explicitly reminded (immediately ruining any sentiment other than indifference), they're more likely to find closure mistaking it for something else.
We just saw this play out over the last 20 years with meme pollution.
I love the "show source" toggle!
I see this is from earlier in the year; I've certainly googled for this kind of thing a few times since then, and never got this as a result.
Thanks OP for posting.
Unlike all the other times I'd tried where it quickly ended up with black or white dominating and then filling the whole area (except once when it became all white except for a single black pixel) this ended up with the whole area filled with a checkerboard pattern except for a jagged fault line running from top to bottom. The waves of filling would cause small changes to the fault line, and occasionally a small island of black or white would form and then be taken over by the checkerboard.
I was going to let it go for a lot longer but accidentally did the "back" gesture on my mouse bringing me back here. I've tried several times since then but that is the only time I got something that was long running.
Anyone else get any interesting long running ones?
This evolved from clicking using the pattern that is 3rd from the left on the top row. In chess notation it is the one black on c1, e1, and d5.
The darker areas appear to move down and right, with new ones coming on the left as the olds ones disappear off the right and bottom.
It is at least a little bit resistant to damage. I accidentally clicked in the middle of the lighter region messing up the regular pattern there. That persisted for just a few steps and then was absorbed into the regular pattern.
This could really use a way to slow it down or single step it to see what is going on.
Oh cool. I tried clicking a few more times to introduce several anomalies. It seemed to absorb them but with a change in pattern, so that it had 3 diagonal stripes that no longer seemed to move, but the two outer ones were cycling through some fixed patterns, and the middle one had some diagonal lines that appeared to move through it. I don't think it was quite repeating. And then it just stopped.
I thought maybe it crashed, but I clicked inside again, and it filled from that click, so it is still running. It just finished all its filling. It now has 3 regions: (1) a large solid color that if I click in there changes between black and white. (2) a dark grey region that if clicked in results in small black or white triangles, which can be grown by clicking in them again. It effectively dampens that damage so it does not spread far. (3) A region full of squiggly lines. Clicking there either just messes up a couple pixels or it infects one of the squiggly lines turning it into a black bar. See second image here [1].
[1] https://imgur.com/a/UkUQ4nE
OP you’re amazing. It’s nice to see kids today can grow up to exposed to the same hardware I’m assuming you (well, me too, so us) grew up with!
Edit: I bought a copy and I'm having a blast!
These screenshots look awesome. Definitely checking this one out. Thanks for this!
It's weird like the cellular automata painting system I've been working on for a long time, which I rewrote in JavaScript a while ago, and is in serious need to rewriting, but runs pretty fast now anyway in spite of itself.
Norman Margolus and Tommaso Toffoli's "Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling" from MIT Press is one of my favorite books of all time! It shows lots of peculiarly indented Forth code.
https://donhopkins.com/home/cam-book.pdf
I recorded this demo for Norman Margolus, one of the creators of the CAM-6 and authors of the book about it, so it starts showing the book, gets pretty technical, and dives deep into some forth code, but then it gets into the demo and on to somẻ fun heat diffusions about here:
https://youtu.be/LyLMHxRNuck?t=531
Here's where I demonstrate some meta rules that let you paint which of 16 dithered heat diffusion kernels to run per cell, that I use for storytelling, then an even weirder demo of painting with Ridiculous Instruction Set Code parallel cellular automata machine language with many diverse rules (not all diffusion, including life, brian's brain, cow spot anneal, torben's foamy anneal, 8 directional data moving "busses", and others):
https://youtu.be/LyLMHxRNuck?t=1398
More info that I'm hoping to cover in a future Repo Show video with Norman:
CAM6 — Don's cellular-automata machine simulator (firsthand)
https://github.com/SimHacker/WillWrightShowForFood/blob/main...
What I Made With Your Magic — the CAM6 Demo, for Norman
https://github.com/SimHacker/WillWrightShowForFood/blob/main...
Also here's some stuff about granular sound synthesis with a "musical gas" cellular automata, babies should love it! Includes farting and laughing gas!
https://github.com/SimHacker/WillWrightShowForFood/blob/main...