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Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
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#32Those font tests are cool, he's created a unique way of rendering fonts, an interesting, playful look. And great that he's letting his son play with the computer.
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#33My parents had me setup on an old MacBook when I was about 1, It was an application called "babysmash" or something. It would pop up shapes and noises as you hit the keyboard. I have no memory of this, there's just a picture of me at a laptop in a high-chair.
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#34My parents had me setup on an old MacBook when I was about 1, It was an application called "babysmash" or something. It would pop up shapes and noises as you hit the keyboard. I have no memory of this, there's just a picture of me at a laptop in a high-chair.
AlphaBaby ?
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#35The app is true marking of a genius maker. A blank space app where all the interface elements and interactions and ideas are made from scratch. There's a George Lukas like "world building" in it, the blog, the website that is just so nice to watch. One of those things you hardly see in any new product/project/... these days. I loved this.
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Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#37My parents had me setup on an old MacBook when I was about 1, It was an application called "babysmash" or something. It would pop up shapes and noises as you hit the keyboard. I have no memory of this, there's just a picture of me at a laptop in a high-chair.
AlphaBaby ?
Spoiler, GP is now three and a half.
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#38Very creative and charming use case.
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#39I 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 Env…
I am sure you have seen MNCA (Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata) https://youtu.be/CYa-o-_eE0Y?t=41
and their continuous counterpart Lenia, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP3zeHyWakw
Ok, nerd sniped.
> The Margolus neighborhood — how partitioning the grid makes a rule reversible.
This reminds me of the https://www.youtube.com/@T2TileProject https://t2tile.com/
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That makes a whole three of us. I played it on NES, and it wasn't until I was in my 20s I learned to it existed on other platforms too. My dad and I spent days on that game trying to figure out good strategies and how to beat it. Good memories.