All or Nothing

It's time for the weekly...

🤖 TODEPOND TIMES 🤖

But wait! There's a new video out! Have you seen it yet? It's called 🤖 Nothing!

Left with Nothing

I hope you enjoyed the new video! I'm pleased and relieved to have finally finished it! (it really took a long time this time...)

On the face of it, the video is about a tool I made - CellPond. I really hope that I showed you a new way of making little drawings and simulations.

On the other hand, I tried to get across a feeling of 'starting afresh'. The pain-staking, but rewarding process of making something out of nothing. It's fun to create stuff! And I hope it inspires at least a few people... to try to create something of their own (whatever that may be).

Missing Tode Trilogy

Even after relentlessly rebuilding every element... Tode is still missing!? It seems like these bots really are trouble.

How will the pond cope without tode? What do we do!?! Hopefully there won't be any imposters swooping in to try to take tode's place on the lilypad!!!

We'll find out more as the trilogy continues...

Fake News

The trilogy will continue with the next video... ✨ NEW Cellular Automata (which was voted for by patrons a while back). Because of how long the last video took... I've planned a much quicker turnaround for the next one! I've done quite a lot of coding for it already, and I have some new animations lined up for it too.

The video is going to be about remixing/parodying well-known cellular automata. I haven't quite decided the final list yet, but so far... I've made my own versions of these:

🐦 Game of Life
🐦 Wolfram Codes
🐦 MNCA 

I'm hoping to do a few more... These are some that I'm considering doing my own version of:

🐦 Moveable Feast Machine
🐦 Langton's Loops
🐦 Langton's Ant
🐦 Wireworld 

I'm not yet sure how many of these I'll do... or if I'll try some different ones. But I'm looking forward to trying them out! :)

CellPond

The CellPond video is finished! But work on CellPond hasn't. There are so many new features (and bug fixes) that I'd like to make! Like...

🤖 A new hexagon shape for giving a rule a chance of firing (suggested by patron Magnogen).
🤖 A down arrow for making rules that have multiple steps.
🤖 A menu for controlling settings about the world.
🤖 A way of editing hue, saturation and lightness (instead of red, green, blue).
🤖 and a lot more!

But... I might need a short break from CellPond for a couple of days at least :)

Thank you so much for supporting me with all these projects. I hope you're pleased to be a part of all this! Have a great week - wherever you are in the world! See you soon! 🐦🤖🐦

Days since tode went missing: 28