The Powder Toy

256*256 langton's ant (slow) by Rawing

Rawing
Rawing
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11th Oct 2012
12th Oct 2012
'Hardware programmed' simulation of langton's ant. Warning: Very slow and you don't see much, unless you pause it.
slow electronics heartat52 electronic aray langton ant life

Comments

  • sentinal-5
    sentinal-5     17th Oct 2012
    btw @rawing +1 and i fav'd
  • sentinal-5
    sentinal-5     17th Oct 2012
    that's not going to help explain anyhing! :) what he means is, look on the life menu, the first element you see will be GOL, select it and draw any one of the shapes that appears on the array screen in this save, then tap the f key slowly, the GOL will make the same shapes as the dots on the array screen. but GOL is MUCH faster.
  • ClassiestMedic
    ClassiestMedic     16th Oct 2012
    screw99: Langton's ant is a Turing machine operating on an infinite two-dimensional grid. It follows very simple rules, but complex emergent behavior is an interesting product.
  • xobotun
    xobotun     16th Oct 2012
    @benthecrazy thanks for this piece of code! Now my ants are going at ~160 frames per second! Thx!
  • screw99
    screw99     16th Oct 2012
    who is langton, and what does his ant do?
  • 0901290
    0901290     15th Oct 2012
    one random question, how do you scroll down the messages on a laptop?
  • benthecrazy
    benthecrazy     13th Oct 2012
    as far as i remember "tpt.setfpscap(XX)" XX being your desired fps
  • jman42
    jman42     13th Oct 2012
    @tothemyers (or anyone who knows), how does one increase their FPS cap?
  • Soap
    Soap     13th Oct 2012
    @Shriek, yes its your opinion but ppl are free to say what they think, right?
  • Shriek
    Shriek     13th Oct 2012
    @Box-Poorsoft: You're sickening. This is called a COMMENT. ITS MY F*CKING OPINION. Last time.