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This is an intriguing consequence of Ogsterduck's 'CRAY life' save. If you know what to do with this, please make whatever use of it you can. A more detailed explanation can be found in the save itself.

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ogsterduck 4th Aug 2015

Just confirmed that saving/loading after deleting some DMND results in the same pattern (no change) in the output.
ogsterduck 4th Aug 2015

The particle IDs affect it because it changes the order neighboring cells are processed in the CRAY matrix, therefor changing CRAY "life" interactions. If you edit the DMND (or whatever) then save/load with the new edit it should still function the same because the IDs are recalculated on loading.
sentinal-5 4th Aug 2015

yeah, but still a vast array of sequences which can happen. i think it's really interesting that the cell id of each pixel affects the output... it could lead to some very fascinating designs
Squaesh 4th Aug 2015

I would expect there to be quite a few sequences which have no possible way of creating them.
Weretyu777 4th Aug 2015

Just awesome. A machine that makes a series of random, yet not random, numbers. Maybe someone could use this to create a TPT version of the Enigma Machine. Also, +100!
Technomancer 4th Aug 2015

Very small grids, such as the 3x3 one at the top, might still be useable as they seem to only run for a few generations before stopping, and the complexity involved is much less than the larger example. But these factors also limit the usefulness of such small grids. I still find this absolutely fascinating, but I will frankly be astounded if anyone manages to do anything useful with it!
Technomancer 4th Aug 2015

Seems that way. HOWEVER it makes the whole system even harder to predict, to the extent that it may not be possible to use this as I first hoped. If you use this device to control things outside itself, whatever changes it initiates in its environment could feed back into the CRAY grid itself, changing the program. I think the whole thing may just be too complex and too chaotic to be useful (except as a randomizer, as has already been suggested).
Kike200 4th Aug 2015

So solid things in the outer save's space interfer with the cray life? so using solid things we could change the code.
Technomancer 4th Aug 2015

I didn't notice that, that's really bizarre! At a guess, deleting the words causes particles to be renumbered, which might change the order in which their interactions are processed? If that's the case it probably makes this considerably harder to use for anything.
ssccsscc 4th Aug 2015

output (30 sec) http://pastebin.com/K6anrcrc

The Powder Toy

Extremely compact programming system by Technomancer

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