Continuous Cellular Automaton

Show off your games, demos and other (playable) creations.
Post Reply
User avatar
Robin
The Omniscient
Posts: 6506
Joined: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:29 pm
Location: The Netherlands
Contact:

Continuous Cellular Automaton

Post by Robin »

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.
contca.love
The Monochromatic one.
(1.67 KiB) Downloaded 372 times
multiccontca.love
The Multi-Chromatic one.
(1.69 KiB) Downloaded 391 times
Help us help you: attach a .love.
User avatar
Peter Hickman
Prole
Posts: 15
Joined: Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:19 am

Re: Continuous Cellular Automaton

Post by Peter Hickman »

The multicolour CA is really cool in a retro 60's way.
User avatar
whitebear
Citizen
Posts: 86
Joined: Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:50 am

Re: Continuous Cellular Automaton

Post by whitebear »

Yeah. It's pretty psychedelic.
davefp
Prole
Posts: 1
Joined: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:34 pm

Re: Continuous Cellular Automaton

Post by davefp »

A joy to watch. The colour version would make a good screen saver.
User avatar
athanazio
Citizen
Posts: 96
Joined: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:12 am
Location: Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Contact:

Re: Continuous Cellular Automaton

Post by athanazio »

crazy :)
Nothing is simple but everything is possible.
User avatar
Robin
The Omniscient
Posts: 6506
Joined: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:29 pm
Location: The Netherlands
Contact:

Re: Continuous Cellular Automaton

Post by Robin »

Here's another weird one:
multiccontca2.love
This one makes me go: "okaaay..."
(1.67 KiB) Downloaded 301 times
Help us help you: attach a .love.
User avatar
Robin
The Omniscient
Posts: 6506
Joined: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:29 pm
Location: The Netherlands
Contact:

Re: Continuous Cellular Automaton

Post by Robin »

And a psychedelic one:
multiccontca3.love
This would be what cellular automatons were like in the sixties.
(1.71 KiB) Downloaded 318 times
Help us help you: attach a .love.
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Ahrefs [Bot] and 45 guests