posted 2 days ago #
I will readily admit that I don't really know what's happening on the
ASCII Automata site. There are a great deal of options to configure, a map of some sort to click around on and absolutely zero instructions. Fortunately, you don't really need them. Click on the grid and something draws. Reset, change some things, try again. At the very least, be sure to change the "font" in the top left - wildly different results based on the options chosen there.
Sort of like staring at a cloud, you really start to see some interesting structures and compositions emerge through the randomness.
The tool / art experiment is by
Heikki Lotvonen, who has a great deal of
other projects also worth perusing.
