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Another CA (again based on the Life Lua example). This time it's a continuous one.

Every time the CA is run (press R to restart with random initial states), it goes through three stages:

• Contrasts. Spots that are on average a tiny bit lighter become lighter, and the same goes for darker spots.
• Advance of the Light Spots. Generally, spots that are light enough become white. Dark spots become smaller.
• Rectangles. Now, the dark spots strike back. They expand until they are rectangular.

The last stage is by far the longest: the first two are often already finished within 10 or 20 generations, while the third may take several hundreds.

I made two versions: a simple monochromatic, and one with three colors, which is actually just like running 3 separate CA's at the same time, but it looks cooler.

Anyway, please tell me what you think.

The multicolour CA is really cool in a retro 60's way.

Yeah. It's pretty psychedelic.

A joy to watch. The colour version would make a good screen saver.

crazy

Here's another weird one:

And a psychedelic one: