Show HN: ASCII Automata

(hlnet.neocities.org)

98 points | by california-og 5 days ago

9 comments

  • mkesper 1 day ago
    Truly nice! Reminds me of https://10print.org/
  • sgentle 20 hours ago
    Really fun. Thanks for sharing!

    Some random ideas:

    It'd be cool if you could start the growth engine from manual mode. Maybe for breadth-first growth you could add all the placed characters, and for depth-first just the last cell you clicked (+ some kind of visual feedback to show what that is)?

    I'd also love to play with some way of enabling/disabling the characters to create a subset and see how that behaves.

    One last thing is it'd be nice to toggle the grid lines off.

    • california-og 16 hours ago
      Thank you! These are good ideas, will implement for the next iteration.
  • ge96 1 day ago
    Feel like I've seen a similar tool Ben Hecks used in one of his projects making a game badge, able to look at a character like an Invader
  • mkesper 1 day ago
    Awesome! Have you thought about adding a PETSCII font?
    • california-og 1 day ago
      That's a great idea! Don't know how I didn't think of that. But you can upload your own fonts too as long as they are 1bit black and white.
  • debo_ 1 day ago
    The UI gives me intensely wonderfig xfig vibes
  • Timsky 1 day ago
    Beautiful!
  • mock-possum 1 day ago
    This is WILD. good clean safe pareidolia fun.
  • maremmano 1 day ago
    Speechless. I love this kind of creativity and agency.