[day 4] Anyone used a cellular automata engine? (jlai.lu)

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Part 2 is basically running just the isolation rule from Conway's game of life until the world state stabilizes. I'm curious if anyone noticed this and used an existing cellular automata program or library to handle the computation.

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[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 2 months ago

Another approach could be to run an image convolution kernel in GIMP (or some other image manipulation program). Something like

[
 1, 1, 1
 1, 0, 1
 1, 1, 1
]

and then filter pixels based on ≥4 or <4

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