Turing-Drawings

12 comments

• iNic 3 hours ago
  This is my favorite [1]. These are a fun exercise to program yourself. Fairly straightforward but also insightful and easy to create fun variations with.

  [1]: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,10,0,2,1,0,6,1...

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• jesterswilde 19 minutes ago
  A lot of the style of images this creates are similar to Cellular Automata. Especially when you have a piece of information move diagonally across the screen.
• pikwip 1 hour ago
  This one has a few satisfying phases: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#5,3,4,2,2,0,2,1,...

  a short film: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#7,3,5,2,0,6,2,1,...

  long time to reach NESS (if it does at all): https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#7,3,3,1,0,0,2,3,...

  Cool glyphs: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,4,0,2,1,3,1,0,...
• suddenlybananas 2 hours ago
  It's interesting how some of them halt after a while and some of them don't. I wonder if one could figure out which ones do and which ones don't?
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  • tromp 1 hour ago
    None of them halt, since no halting state is ever introduced into these canvas dwelling TMs :-(
  • dadadad100 2 hours ago
    You are kidding, right? [0]

    [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

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    • Y_Y 27 minutes ago
      These are FSMs though, as the tape is finite.
• dgan 24 minutes ago
  some of them, somehow, look depressingly similar to out world, i feel uneasy watching it being destroyed
• andoando 2 hours ago
  This is interesting, looks like different patterns at different levels of zoom.

  https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#20,2,16,1,2,9,1,...
• pikwip 2 hours ago
  This one leaves a nice impression on your eyes if you stare at it: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,5,2,3,3,0,3,1,...
• pvg 3 hours ago
  A thread 11 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6693653
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  • MortyWaves 2 hours ago
    And also her article on it https://pointersgonewild.com/2012/12/31/turing-drawings/
• tux3 1 hour ago
  (Seizure warning, for many of these)
• ramses0 3 hours ago
  Why does this look like a perfect representation of TV static?

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

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  • pvg 3 hours ago
    I dunno, I took one look at it and thought 'this clearly wasn't influenced by the Cosmic Microwave Background at all! I can tell by the pixels'.
  • iNic 3 hours ago
    TV static is random. This is basically a pseudo-random generator.
• devrandoom 2 hours ago
  Very impressive! There is something earie and disturbing about the animation, some primal instincts triggered.
• deep_u 2 hours ago
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