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Re:Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with ... by gpmcadam on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:53PM (#24319347)
Reminds me of something I remember playing with years ago, where you could draw various materials on the screen. Brick, sand, water, and then add different types of explosives. A really fun simulation all in the browser.

Anyone remember what this is?

Re:Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with ... by sjruckle on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:58PM (#24319386)
Re:Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with ... by gpmcadam on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:06PM (#24319437)
Very similar to this! I wonder if someone else had re-made it since then.
Re:Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with ... by tomjakubowski on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:36PM (#24319597)
Check out sandspiel: https://sandspiel.club/
Re:Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with ... by iam4722202468 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @07:56PM (#24320251)
Here's another powder simulation, https://powdertoy.co.uk/. This one still has an active community and development team, and people have built all kinds of cool things with it like actual computers that can be programmed with assembly.
Re:Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with ... by jms55 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:17PM (#24320822)
The aforementioned sandspiel is excellent, along with orb.farm (by the same author), and (shameless plug) my own entry in the genre: https://github.com/JMS55/sandbox
Re:Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with ... by lostgame on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:20AM (#24321536)
Oh, God; that brings back memories. It was like the Windows 3.1 days, right?
Re:Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with ... by prezjordan on Saturday August 29, 2020 @04:55PM (#24319374)