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Re:Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter by airesearcher on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:01AM (#45606242)
Good question... and I explored this a lot in the rules - some of the parameters are extremely sensitive... so it takes a lot of trial and error...
Re:Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter by analog8374 on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:47AM (#45618097)
The secret to getting good overall organization and symmetry might be the approach taken by these two guys:

http://fleen.org

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/282037995384211853/

(For that second guy, see his earlier stuff. His butterfly origami. It's stronger

Which is to say, rather than building a large system from cells, they start with a large simple system and then differentiate it. Recursively.

Now how that might be applied to your vision is a question

Re:Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter by analog8374 on Friday October 17, 2025 @10:30PM (#45624410)