Write Inkspot, not Game of Life
Last Spring I was dawdling in a bookstore, and happened across this 1987 book about cellular automata. I had recently begun learning some graphics programming and thought this would be a great source of prompts. I gazed upon the book, which provided a sort of cellular automata version of “Hello, World”…no, not Conway’s Game of Life - Inkspot! Inkspot was the perfect hook - it has basically one rule that when implemented made me feel like a genius, despite doing very little. I can’t ask for much more out of a first project!
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