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Awe and mild discomfort aren't the usual feelings I get watching information being processed.
This is really great. I would like to use it as a visual backdrop on a big screen when playing DJ sets. I see that it enters a permanently zooming out mode when I zoom out fast, would be awesome if the zoom control disappears when it enters that mode so that it just displays the game of life itself and no UI elements.
Cool - Game Of Life on my phone. Some pretty cool patterns. Recursion? Don't see it. But look - I can zoom out. Wow, that's a pretty large pattern. Oh shit!
I've not delved into the code. But I am assuming that this is a static model and not actually doing the GOL calculations. Is that correct?
I can wrap my head around zooming in - conceptually you run any life simulation you want, i.e. a base level game of life, and then recursively decompose each cell into the 2²² cells of a OTCA metapixel. Zooming out I find much harder to make sense of. What does it look like if you zoom out infinitely often? Is there some limit? If you take an empty universe with all cells dead there seems to be nothing at first, but…
> What does it look like if you zoom out infinitely often? Make a sharp backwards roll of your mouse wheel and see for yourself - it'll turn on the autopilot mode.
Who else had this experience. Cool - Game Of Life on my phone. Some pretty cool patterns. Recursion? Don't see it. But look - I can zoom out. Wow, that's a pretty large pattern. Oh shit! I've not delved into the code. But I am assuming that this is a static model and not actually doing the GOL calculations. Is that correct?
But if you zoom out, at any time it could be possible for them to compute a different pattern. But it's OTCA metapixel all the way up. What is being computed, other than more OTCA metapixels? What is being computed after infinite zoom out steps?
Makes me question the meaning of existence!
(This is really amazing)