Cool project! Some of the patterns you can create are insane...
Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
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Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#12People who grow up using these sorts of bespoke software are gonna have some pretty weird nostalgia. "Hey when you were a toddler did you ever play with a paint app where the fill tool created flashing swirly patterns? ...no?"
I have a friend who's dad is a good carpenter, put a whole second story on his house, did the flooring and made a lot of furniture. He said it was about 4th grade before he found out that there were stores where people went and bought furniture instead of just making their own.
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#13People who grow up using these sorts of bespoke software are gonna have some pretty weird nostalgia. "Hey when you were a toddler did you ever play with a paint app where the fill tool created flashing swirly patterns? ...no?"
On the subject of nostalgic paint apps, I distinctly remember one of the Kid Pix drawing tools/games that I had growing up... what a weird piece of software that was!
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#14Cool project and cool crt monitor
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#15People who grow up using these sorts of bespoke software are gonna have some pretty weird nostalgia. "Hey when you were a toddler did you ever play with a paint app where the fill tool created flashing swirly patterns? ...no?"
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Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#16People who grow up using these sorts of bespoke software are gonna have some pretty weird nostalgia. "Hey when you were a toddler did you ever play with a paint app where the fill tool created flashing swirly patterns? ...no?"
I spent my whole childhood trying to find someone who played Defender of the Crown and never found one :(
This is... strange? I wonder what the reason might be?
Anyways, you've found someone. Or at least someone who used to.
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#17I love this! May your baby grow up weird and unique like cellular automata rules, thinking globally and acting locally.
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...
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#18I spy a Model m keyboard and a 17” crt compaq monitor
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!
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#19It's hard to believe how spot-on this is to what I've been looking for. I thought about coding something almost exactly like this, for the exact same reasons as the author describes.
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.
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#20People who grow up using these sorts of bespoke software are gonna have some pretty weird nostalgia. "Hey when you were a toddler did you ever play with a paint app where the fill tool created flashing swirly patterns? ...no?"
I have a friend who's dad is a good carpenter, put a whole second story on his house, did the flooring and made a lot of furniture. He said it was about 4th grade before he found out that there were stores where people went and bought furniture instead of just making their own.
My parents aren't especially skilled carpenters, electricians plumbers, or HVAC technicians, but they managed to be good enough at those things. At sixteen my girlfriend's family was flabbergasted to learn that I had never seen my parents hire such people.
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.