I will be using this to design local event posters.
Edit: I bought a copy and I'm having a blast!
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
#22I will be using this to design local event posters. Edit: I bought a copy and I'm having a blast!
I love that!
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#23People 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?"
The best one for me is Mario Paint on SNES!
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#24People 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 think we're well past the point where anyone is feeling that level of nostalgia for software.
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.
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#25This might be the coolest site on the Internet. What an awesome paint program and what a great write up. I wish there was more of this sort of thing in the world.
I love the "show source" toggle!
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#26People 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!
Yeah I remember kid pix! All the computer labs in school had it.
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#27People 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?"
The best one for me is Mario Paint on SNES!
I loved making animations on there.
Anyone remember Kai's Power Goo? My school computer lab had it on all the Macs
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#28Using the pattern on the top left of the array of patterns I clicked several times and got a setup where it was still flood filling after maybe 10 minutes. 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 patter…
I found one that looks like it is periodic and so will run forever. See first image here [1].
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].
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#29I'll be that guy… Oh man, give that kid some blocks to play with instead!
;-)
Re: Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
#30People 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?"
Reminds me of the Nanny Lynn tapes that everyone was wondering what the hell it was about for a while like it was some kind of analogue horror thing and then it turned out to be just some cartoon someone made for their grandkids or something