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Turing Drawings

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Re: Turing Drawings

#22
This is great. Here's a bug report:

If your browser window is narrow, the "Fork Me on GitHub" link overlaps the "Pause" button. (But the overlapping part of the GitHub image is transparent, so it's not immediately obvious why "Pause" doesn't work.)

The page content fits just fine, so it seems silly to make the window larger; there's just this little bug.

Re: Turing Drawings

#23
Some of these could be quite useful for graphics algorithms. For example: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,1,2,1,2,1,0,2,3...

Is a pretty amazing simulation of fire with wind (although rotated 90°).

And that 'Glider' one from the other post could work as water on a car wind shield while driving.

Re: Turing Drawings

#24
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Fascinating. My favorite is "Rapids" http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,6,2,2,3,2,4,0,0...

Another rainy/scratchy one: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,2,0,1,0,3,1,0...

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Re: Turing Drawings

#25

This is great, but can't you only show me drawings which halt? I sit there waiting and I don't know if they'll stop...

The world is finite, so every drawing eventually loops.

However, the state space is something like k * 2^18 * n^(2^18), where k is the number of states and n the number of symbols. For the default (4, 3) this is 3.125 * 10^125080, so you could be waiting for a while :)

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