Offtopic, but ".website" is pretty much the worst TLD conceivable.
Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence
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Re: Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence
#32reminds me a lot of an old multiplayer network game called "liquid war" http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj65vUy3rK8
Also reminds of another old game called 'Colors of War'
http://colors-of-war.webs.com/
Re: Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence
#33If you put a 4 x 8 purple block in the center of each color, the outcome will always be purple taking over the entire map. It seems like a fairly complex, and similar tactics in Go can achieve victory (victory being purple overtaking the map).
Re: Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence
#34Offtopic, but ".website" is pretty much the worst TLD conceivable.
Why so?
Re: Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence
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#36Seems as if pretty much every state is a steady state. Would be interesting if some were predators and others prey, with some feature that allows them to "starve"
Watch longer. I drew a small block of pink and it took over a quarter of the board, then red swept everything.
I spent an unreasonable amount of time rooting for pink.
Re: Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence
#37It would be a neat feature to allow us to upload an image of the right size as a seed for the game
This is an awesome idea. I think I might do this next!
Re: Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why so?
cuz everythang with a TLD is a website! and it's long!
I agree it's a strange TLD. But it's the other way around: A given TLD doesn't necessarily have to point to a web server/website at all - any kind of service could resolve this host name.
Re: Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence
#39This game is quite different from Conway's Game of Life because it's not deterministic. During a turn, cells will rely on Math.random to find whether to move or divide; the direction that the cell move into is also randomized.
Assuming the RNG is a deterministic random number generator, then that should make the entire game deterministic? Given independent runs, the decisions that each cell takes should occur in order, and therefore achieve the same result.
You don't know what the starting internal state of the RNG is, so no you can't predict it. The starting internal state being secret is what gives PRGs their security.
Re: Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence
#40Practise starting revolutions: colour the whole board white, and see which minimal combinations of black will eventually take over the board.