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📊 It's time to vote for this month's video! It's currently a tie, so your vote could decide what the next video is! VOTE HERE.

CellPond Rules

My new video is now out! Have you seen it yet? It's about making a cellular automata that runs inside a cell of another cellular automata. If you haven't seen it yet, you can watch it here.

It was really fun to make a different type of cellular automata! I wrote the rules for the engine by writing little groups of numbers. Here is the rule that makes sand fall down:

(1:961,112) gets turned into (1:112,961)

What does that mean??? Let's break it down!

961 refers to the yellow colour of sand. It refers to any yellow cell. The 9 is the amount of red in the cell, the 6 is the amount of green, the 1 is the amount of blue. (On a scale of 0 to 9).

112 refers to any grey cell, which represents an empty cell.

1: refers to the width of the 'diagram'. This means that this rule applies to a 1x2 area (1 width, 2 height).

Therefore, this rule matches any 1x2 area that has a yellow cell above a grey cell. If it matches, it replaces it with a 1x2 area that has a grey cell above a yellow cell.

Here are the rules that make sand slide (one for each direction):

(2:961,112,961,112) gets turned into (2:112,112,961,961)
(2:112,961,112,961) gets turned into (2:112,112,961,961)

My next step is to make these rules editable with a pretty-looking drag&drop UI!

MotherTode

The cells video has got quite a lot of views compared to usual! And quite a lot of people are looking at my projects, which is quite nice. Somebody tried out the MotherTode language and encountered some issues. This was very helpful because it reminded me about how much of a mess I left the language in!

I've started fixing some of those issues. And hopefully, I'll be able to use MotherTode to tackle Advent Of Code again this year!! 🎅

Check out more info on that progress here.

November Video

Currently, FOUR different choices are in joint first-place on the vote. So it's quite hard to predict which one will win! So please do vote here if you haven't already :)

Normally, there's a clear winner from the start, but this time it's close... So I've started putting plans together for all four of them, just in case!

I hope I can use this music for the Tourism 2 video:
In The Talons Of The Big Bird

And these two tracks for some of the other videos:
Waterfalls
Cupid 

Stay tuned! And thank you so much for all your support! I really do appreciate every one of you being part of my projects! 🐸⭐ See you next week!