Birbla

Discussion summary

A project involving Mr. Baby Paint and cellular automata received positive feedback for its creativity and charm. Users discussed its potential applications and related cellular automata concepts.

What the discussion says

  • Users praised the project's creativity and visual appeal.
  • Some suggested applications like designing posters.
  • References were made to related automata systems like MNCA and Lenia.
“Now this is personal computing done right!”
— hankbond
“BEAUTIFUL WORK!!!!!”
— pjs_

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  • Those font tests are cool, he's created a unique way of rendering fonts, an interesting, playful look. And great that he's letting his son play with the computer.
    by edg5000
  • I spy a Model m keyboard and a 17” crt compaq monitor

    OP you’re amazing. It’s nice to see kids today can grow up to exposed to the same hardware I’m assuming you (well, me too, so us) grew up with!

    by rootsudo
  • Good Lord what is happening in there?

    These screenshots look awesome. Definitely checking this one out. Thanks for this!

    by functionmouse
  • It's hard to believe how spot-on this is to what I've been looking for. I thought about coding something almost exactly like this, for the exact same reasons as the author describes.

    I see this is from earlier in the year; I've certainly googled for this kind of thing a few times since then, and never got this as a result.

    Thanks OP for posting.

    by gota
  • The app is true marking of a genius maker. A blank space app where all the interface elements and interactions and ideas are made from scratch. There's a George Lukas like "world building" in it, the blog, the website that is just so nice to watch. One of those things you hardly see in any new product/project/... these days. I loved this.
    by pmkary
  • This might be the coolest site on the Internet. What an awesome paint program and what a great write up. I wish there was more of this sort of thing in the world.

    I love the "show source" toggle!

    by xyzzy_plugh
  • Using the pattern on the top left of the array of patterns I clicked several times and got a setup where it was still flood filling after maybe 10 minutes.

    Unlike all the other times I'd tried where it quickly ended up with black or white dominating and then filling the whole area (except once when it became all white except for a single black pixel) this ended up with the whole area filled with a checkerboard pattern except for a jagged fault line running from top to bottom. The waves of filling would cause small changes to the fault line, and occasionally a small island of black or white would form and then be taken over by the checkerboard.

    I was going to let it go for a lot longer but accidentally did the "back" gesture on my mouse bringing me back here. I've tried several times since then but that is the only time I got something that was long running.

    Anyone else get any interesting long running ones?

    by tzs
  • People who grow up using these sorts of bespoke software are gonna have some pretty weird nostalgia. "Hey when you were a toddler did you ever play with a paint app where the fill tool created flashing swirly patterns? ...no?"
    by fwipsy

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