haven't been good for much today, but I did finally figure out how to get SDL2 C code working using the mingw64 / MSYS2 tools (on Windows 10) and decided to poke around with an old old idea, linear automata. each row of pixels corresponds to an iteration of the automaton, which is simply a linear array of integers in the range [0,3]. to calculate the next iteration, the value of each cell is summed with that of its immediate neighbors and then there's a lookup table mapping an integer in [0,9] to an integer in [0,3], and that supplies the cell's next value. generating the lookup tables randomly gives a lot of different behaviors, as you can see.
- they/them
plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.
host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)
chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)
other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)
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in reply to @pnictogen-wing's post:
this is really really cool! this approach has a very pleasing isotropy to it that is starkly lacking in most elementary cellular automata and the palette used here is very tasteful
oh thanks! I admit we just cycled through a bunch of website generated palettes until we found one that looked pleasing. oh, we altered the program so it put the rule in the title of the window, heh