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http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/

by evincarofautumn • 13 years ago

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drostie• 13 years ago

This one was fun:

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#6,6,1,2,2,5,3,0,0...

evincarofautumn2• 13 years ago

It’s interesting how most of the machines seem to quickly reach a steady loop, freeze with no further changes, or descend into static with no discernible pattern. It would be cool to see how they would behave if they had access to limited I/O—the current display notwithstanding, as it’s less like listening to a person speak and more like watching their brain function.

bglusman2• 13 years ago

I mentioned New Kind of Science below, but also relevant here, he did a lot of quantifying these kinds of patterns and islands of complexity in cellular automata... I never finished the book, so unsure how or if he really connected it to other disciplines, but a good reference point if interested in this stuff.

mabbo2• 13 years ago

This one doesn't last indefinitely, but has a similar trippy feel to it: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,1,0,3,2,2,0...

zalzane• 13 years ago

here's another cool one; almost looks like an computer's interpretation of some video input http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,0,3,1,3,1...

mabbo2• 13 years ago

It looks like a window into the fucking netherworld.

Rexxar• 13 years ago

This one has at the same time a nice beginning and a periodic final state that looks like a meteor shower : http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,3...

dannygarcia• 13 years ago

this one goes from chaos to repetitive order http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,2,0,2,1,0...

evincarofautumn2• 13 years ago

I found this to be a fascinating waste of time. An asm.js fork also exists here: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/

fogleman• 13 years ago

I saw this a while back and implemented my own in Python + wxPython + C, in case anyone is interested...

https://github.com/fogleman/Turing

542458• 13 years ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709128

nvader• 13 years ago

Sierpinski's Right-Angled Triangle

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,1,1,2,3,2...

feral• 13 years ago

Similar fractal: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,1,0,1,2,2...

Quite pleasing for some reason, imo.

jtanderson2• 13 years ago

Very Sierpinski: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,1,1,2,1,2,3...

jtanderson2• 13 years ago

The longest one I've seen that isn't just noise:

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,3,2,2,1,1...

freyrs3• 13 years ago

Interesting how much structure this exhibits.

infogulch2• 13 years ago

This one looks like rain on the side window while driving down the highway: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,1,3,2,2,2...

infogulch2• 13 years ago

Moving triangles and noise that eventually get stuck in a surprising loop: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,2,3,1,2,2...

hifiboombox• 13 years ago

Two walls of static colliding: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,26,0,14,3,1,15,...

darkmighty• 13 years ago

Oh entropy always haunting us.

Tossrock• 13 years ago

Static eats an ordered state:

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,10,1,3,3,0,5,3,...

jcromartie• 13 years ago

Similar, but with bars "reaching" towards the top.

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,24,1,14,2,1,2,0...

tprice7• 13 years ago

I like this one: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,1,3,1,0,2...

EGreg• 13 years ago

Is this kind of like Conway's game of life?

bglusman2• 13 years ago

A little bit, but reminds me more of Stephen Wolfram's 'New Kind of Science', which are also finite state automata like game of life...

mrerrormessage• 13 years ago

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,1,2,0,1,0,0...

nemo1618• 13 years ago

Previous discussion of an asm.js fork: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709128

tel• 13 years ago

Melting away, this is my favorite one yet.

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,2,3,1,2,0...

wcauchois• 13 years ago

green goo: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#10,11,7,3,1,7,1,3...

moondistance• 13 years ago

wiggly lines: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,3,3,1,3,3...

a-nikolaev• 13 years ago

This machine is interesting. It does not look periodic, fractal-like patterns are slowly changing with time: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,3,3...

A related machine, but eventually diverge to static: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,2,0,2,2,1,2,1,2...

Update. One more: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,2,0,1,1,2,2,1,2...

beloch• 13 years ago

This one produces a Sierpinski gasket PDQ:

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#5,5,3,3,3,0,3,3,2...

Nifty!

TN1ck• 13 years ago

This one too, but it's perfectly static: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,0,3,1,1,3...

lelandbatey• 13 years ago

World of squares emerges, then marches across the screen.

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

Ah, found my old comment when this last got posted (found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709765):

I quite like this one, it's as though the environment deteriorates. Don't watch it to fast:

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

At one point, right before it goes over the "entropy cliff" it creates what looks like a lot of Sierpinski triangles:

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

I found it quite interesting that one as complex as this could stabilize:

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

This seems to end up like a frozen lightning bolt: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,3,3,3,2,4,0,2,2,3...

This creates a pattern almost like hair in the wind: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,2,3,0,2,4,3,0,3,1...

Seems as though it's many cats standing on each others heads: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,0,3,1,0,3,1,2,1,0...

Like waves on a beach: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,3,4,2,1,2,2,0,4,0...

Some otherworldly data wind: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,0,3,3,3,3,1,0,3,2...

Eventually, all clouds fade away: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,3,3...

In and out of phase: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,2,2,0,3,1,2,3,1,0...

Like sand dunes moving: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,1,3,3,1,0,2...

Saws on parade: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,0,2,2,3,1...

Scooty lightning: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,0,3,2,2,3...

Claudus• 13 years ago

Here are few good ones:

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,1,1,1,1,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,1,2,1,1,3...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,2,3,1,3,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,2,2,2,3,2...

knappador2• 13 years ago

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,2,2,3,0,2,0,3...

knappador2• 13 years ago

reflecting off of itself http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#11,3,2,1,0,1,2,0,...

atdepth• 13 years ago

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,1,3,3,1,2,1...

cupcake-unicorn• 13 years ago

This one was really striking: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,10,1,8,2,0,3,3,...

peter_l_downs• 13 years ago

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,6,1,2,0,1,1,3,2...

yeukhon• 13 years ago

Raining (or a helicopter moving and you looking down on earth): http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,3,0,2,0,2...

show is up : http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,1,2,2,1,3...

wait wait brb: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,3,3,2,0,0...

lines moving up: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,2,2,2,2,1,2,1...

pixles moving: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,3,2,2,1,0...

space rocket shooting: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,1,3,2,0,0...

powerpoint effect: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,2,3,2,2,2...

undo powerpoint effect: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,1,0,2,1,1,3...

sorting algorithm (reminds me of insertion sort lol): http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,1,1,2,1,3...

zamalek• 13 years ago

Algae colony: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,3,0,0,3,3,4...

It's the only 5,4 one that I have found that doesn't immediately degenerate into noise (or some static image). It seems as though the more states and symbols you have the higher the chance of noise and strangely the greener it gets. I found this pretty interesting 20,19 one though: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#20,19,10,1,3,5,14...

domdib• 13 years ago

The most "Life" like one I came across: http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,1,1,2,2,2,1...

apolymath• 13 years ago

i spent an hour finding the most unique animated ones. the longer I experimented, the more unique the patterns became.

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,2,2,2,1,1,2,5...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,6,2,2,6,2,3,6...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,6,1,0,1,1,2,6...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,4,1,0,5,2,0,5...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,8,0,6,3,0,5,1,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,8,1,7,0,0,1,3,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,8,1,7,0,1,6,3,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,2,1,0,2,3,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,2,2,0,0,2,3,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,2,0,1,2,0,2...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,2,2,2,2,1,0,2...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,2,2,2,2,2,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,2,1,3,2,2,2,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,0,1,0,2,1,1,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,2,1,0,1,0,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,2,1,3,2,2,3,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,9,0,3,1,0,3,3,2...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,9,0,5,2,2,3,2,2...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,9,2,4,1,2,7,3,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,9,1,6,2,1,4,2,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,9,0,4,0,1,5,2,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,9,0,1,1,1,1,0,0...

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