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Passively participating in #Genuary2024 — Day 9 ASCII. In summer 2022 I released ASCII-SCAPE, a textmode remix of my earlier C-SCAPE co-evolving multi-cellular automata simulation piece. Technially, it should been called UTF-SCAPE, but hey (some variations actually are strictly ASCII only).

The piece uses 1200+ handpicked rule combinations (based on custom rules & neighborhood configurations I generated/searched/collected/curated with my own tools over the past 20+ years), 32 character sets, 40 color themes, all creating literally billions of possible combinations... The piece also allows recording & exporting chunks of the simulation as plain text files (just press X to start/end recording)

art.thi.ng/ascii-scape/
(Reload for new random combination!)

The following keyboard shortcuts are available:

- space : toggle simulation updates (pause/play)
- r : randomize environment
- x : start/stop recording
- f : toggle scroll speed (fast/slow)

More info about both sibling projects at the links below:

ASCII-SCAPE
fxhash.xyz/generative/16205

C-SCAPE
fxhash.xyz/generative/13992

Scott Draves: Electric Sheep, 1999. Internet-connected personal computers, screensaver (with updates until today). Screenshots 2011-2012. More informations: Dreher, Thomas: History of Computer Art, chapter IV.3.3 Fractal Flames. Internet: iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/GCA #scottdraves #thomasdreher #evolutionaryart #generativeart #generativeartist #computerart #netart #screensaver #screensaverart #screensaverartwork #digitalart #digitalartist #digitalartists #computerart #computerartist

#genuary2023 Black & White. Some WIP snapshots of last year's C-SCAPE co-evolving 1D #CellularAutomata #GenerativeArt project...

Realtime versions:
art.thi.ng/c-scape

Co-evolving here means that there're multiple CAs sharing the same environment, each with a different neighborhood (shape & size), different rules and its own moving fuzzy mask/transition zone. Neighborhoods can also have a temporal dimension and as such are technically 1.5D or 2D and able to look up cell states from the (near) past. Where CAs overlap spatially, hybrid forms are emerging and these interactions can lead to entirely new outcomes...

The #OpenSource library which evolved from this project:
thi.ng/cellular