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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 1h

broad strokes: there are two different cellular automata operating on a shared grid. happy to add detail to that if desired!

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 21h

The Mona Lisa of Faras, an eight-century masterpiece of late antique African art. This wall painting of St Anne, mother of Mary, comes from the cathedral of Faras in Nubia. Today in the National Museum in Warsaw.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 12h

yes, sort of! and no it doesn't count itself. just the four neighbors. and it's buffered.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 12h

i love prototaxites! one of the theories is they /were/ lichen but it doesn't seem very well supported at present!

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 12h

i hope i can translate this particular one well to building scale!

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

[[1,0,0,0,0], [1,0,0,0,0], [1,1,1,1,0], [1,2,1,2,1], [1,1,2,1,0]]

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

let's see how this one compresses. it's a fresh run w/ 16x upscaling. if you want really clean i think best bet is downscale this 16x, threshold so you get three colors, upscale losslessly.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

wow what a find! how close to pittsburgh are you haha.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

this one, in particular, kind of killed me.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

i'm trying to fast track my spooky movie recs because it's october and i'm late due to being busy the past few days- i've been watching a couple of new things to vet them. tonight i'm watching an old favorite (which is going on the list) and also zigeunerweisen, which sounds fabulous.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

thanks- please do! i can generate one at higher quality with this rule if you'd like.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

listening to these recs now. the first one is fabulous.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

i felt the same way except i found out about them less than 5 years ago!

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

actually one other alternate entry point, for if you like dissonance and also are gay malariaband.bandcamp.com/track/thrash...

malariaband.bandcamp.com

Thrash Me (2019 Remaster), by Malaria!

from the album Compiled 2.0

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

or "you you" as something equally good but less dissonant, which is maybe a good on ramp malariaband.bandcamp.com/track/you-yo...

malariaband.bandcamp.com

You You (2019 Remaster), by Malaria!

from the album Compiled 2.0

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

i think i'd recommend either "your turn to run" as indicative of why they're great malariaband.bandcamp.com/track/your-t...

malariaband.bandcamp.com

Your Turn To Run (2019 Remaster), by Malaria!

from the album Compiled 2.0

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

malaria!. i immediately liked them but i guess my tolerance for dissonance + more abrasive experimental stuff has increased, and i like them so much more now.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

they have this really interesting property because of that, which is that all "roads" need to connect to something.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

here, lemme find you a more recognizable example and turn flux off.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 16h

they /are/ grain boundaries!

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 16h

yeah they're all a continuous grid.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 16h

lietmotiv (french 80s coldwave, not the other one)

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 17h

uncertain if we're going to get weirder and more experimental or devolve (positive) into more modern gothy club music. (open to recs.)

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 17h

i had completely different plans for today but i'm obsessively working with CA and having a one person dance party in my room. general mood: bauhaus, grauzone, malaria!, second decay. also boytronic, which makes limited curational sense, but the mood fits.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 17h

i would love to do a generator for these which leans really heavily on CA!

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 18h

with some more established rules. the new marginals are top center, right center.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 18h

[[2,1,0,0,0], [1,0,0,0,0], [1,1,2,2,0], [1,1,2,1,0], [2,1,1,1,1]], which likes small clean enclosures, and which saturates and makes more walls over time.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 18h

evaluating some outlying structure / marginal rules for communal stone megastructures. [[2,2,0,0,0], [1,0,0,0,0], [1,1,2,2,0], [1,1,2,1,2], [2,1,1,1,1]]

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 19h

some conjectural world building ideas. walls to break wind, allow soil to accumulate, and create high-moisture pockets. very tall (sometimes magically self-repairing?) stone pillars for farming lichen. walking through an endless sea of pillars which, cumulatively, obscure the horizon...

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 19h

the red regions are a different idea- there's a flux threshold (here, 4) and anything actively changing is rendered in a third color (red).

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 19h

it's not transparent at all, happy to clarify! so it's 2 state, and neighbors are counted in two neighborhoods: ortho and diagonal. so you can get 0-4 neighbors for either. the array is ortho on one axis and diagonal on the other, and says what a cell should become. (2 means stay).

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 20h

i have built up some intuition. i sort of have an idea of what's possible and what sorts of behaviors can be adjacent to what. i find it holds /somewhat/ when i change families of rules, but there are local particulars.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 20h

oh i /love/ this one [[1,0,0,0,0], [1,0,0,0,0], [1,1,2,2,0], [2,1,0,1,1], [2,1,1,0,2]]

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 20h

yeah this one is good. the darker, more garden-filled parts in the center are the new rule. imagine, if you will, that the smaller 2u structures are residences and storehouses within the larger communal structure.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 21h

oh? [[1,0,0,0,0], [1,0,0,0,0], [1,1,2,2,0], [0,1,2,1,1], [2,1,1,1,2]]

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 21h

lower left is interesting. it makes a lot of partially to fully enclosed gardens and buildings, and it crosstalks well along the edges. maybe i can grade that or have a clean hard line into roads and fields?

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 21h

it's not quite there but i'm trying to find some rules which do interesting "buttressing" structures pendant from the boxier communal structure. there are some promising bits- look at the long dangling bit, mid-left, and some of the details in the upper right. i'm also trying to find favorable roads

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 21h

@colourtann.bsky.social possibly too niche to ever get off the ground, but a few of us were trying to start a weeky CA posting day! you'd be welcome if you're interested

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 21h

here's a still of the previous- bsky compression definitely impacts the feel of the details a lot.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 21h

roads are constructed at parity fault lines [[2,1,0,0,2], [2,0,0,0,0], [1,1,2,0,0], [1,1,0,2,0], [1,1,1,2,0]] #CA-turday

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 22h

stippled paths or topology lines #CA-turday

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Everett Ruess Fan Club @everettruessfans.bsky.social · 23h

#cellular-automata #CA-turday @lorenschmidt.bsky.social @symbo1ics.bsky.social ok, here's a continuous cellular automaton on a malleable lattice of synthesizer voices, represented by these lozenge-like polyhedra, that are themselves malleable youtu.be/07wqMrMKhqE?... seizure warning, btw...

youtu.be

Audiovisual Alchemy (2017) - Provisional Demo

YouTube video by Paul Hembree

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 23h

i wish they leaned into that further! i'm a huge appreciator of puppetry and stop motion, and that really is an interesting connection. it seems like such an ambiguous read right now. especially considering the proximity of greeble-heavy game armor designs.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 23h

that's exactly the problem. a shame, i think.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 23h

it's so funny. i'm going into the forest to forage, time to put on my five belts and the vest with the decorations which cost us all three months of labor.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 23h

i think it would be nice if the clothing weren't so fussy and also reflected different cultures.

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