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Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with emoji

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Post by tomjakubowski »

gpmcadam wrote: post #9
sjruckle wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Powder? https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust2/

Very similar to this! I wonder if someone else had re-made it since then.

Check out sandspiel: https://sandspiel.club/

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Post by teddyh »

normanmatrix wrote: post #12

What happened to the glider hacker emblem? A pity it never took off..

It didn’t go anywhere, here it is: https://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem/

I always thought that it was a symbol with unfortunate connotations of time-wasting. If you want to market youself with a symbol of something which is ultimately a useless distraction, this is not a attractive branding.

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Post by iam4722202468 »

gpmcadam wrote: post #9
sjruckle wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Powder? https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust2/

Very similar to this! I wonder if someone else had re-made it since then.

Here's another powder simulation, https://powdertoy.co.uk/. This one still has an active community and development team, and people have built all kinds of cool things with it like actual computers that can be programmed with assembly.

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Post by gojomo »

teddyh wrote: post #13
normanmatrix wrote: post #12

What happened to the glider hacker emblem? A pity it never took off..

It didn’t go anywhere, here it is: https://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem/ I always thought that it was a symbol with unfortunate connotations of time-wasting. If you want to market youself with a symbol of something which is ultimately a useless distraction, this is not a attractive branding.

In what ways are conways-game-of-life or the glider-pattern associated with time-wasting?

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Post by teddyh »

gojomo wrote: post #16
teddyh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It didn’t go anywhere, here it is: https://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem/ I always thought that it was a symbol with unfortunate connotations of time-wasting. If you want to market youself with a symbol of something which is ultimately a useless distraction, this is not a attractive branding.

In what ways are conways-game-of-life or the glider-pattern associated with time-wasting?

The Game of Life is a fun toy, but ultimately unproductive. It does not inherently lead to anything else either; the entire field is a dead end (no matter what Stephen Wolfram says). And, what’s worse, people more or less knew this at the time, and still they let most of the best minds of a generation, as it were, be absorbed into doing nothing but the equivalent of mental navel-gazing.

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Post by jms55 »

gpmcadam wrote: post #9
sjruckle wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Powder? https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust2/

Very similar to this! I wonder if someone else had re-made it since then.

The aforementioned sandspiel is excellent, along with orb.farm (by the same author), and (shameless plug) my own entry in the genre: https://github.com/JMS55/sandbox

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Post by lostgame »

gpmcadam wrote: post #6

Reminds me of something I remember playing with years ago, where you could draw various materials on the screen. Brick, sand, water, and then add different types of explosives. A really fun simulation all in the browser. Anyone remember what this is?

Oh, God; that brings back memories. It was like the Windows 3.1 days, right?
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