[HN Gopher] Turing-Drawings
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Turing-Drawings
Author : laurenth
Score : 77 points
Date : 2025-04-20 16:00 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| pvg wrote:
| A thread 11 years ago
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6693653
| MortyWaves wrote:
| And also her article on it
| https://pointersgonewild.com/2012/12/31/turing-drawings/
| ramses0 wrote:
| Why does this look like a perfect representation of TV static?
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| https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,1,0,3,1,1,...
| iNic wrote:
| TV static is random. This is basically a pseudo-random
| generator.
| pvg wrote:
| I dunno, I took one look at it and thought 'this clearly wasn't
| influenced by the Cosmic Microwave Background at all! I can
| tell by the pixels'.
| iNic wrote:
| This is my favorite [1]. These are a fun exercise to program
| yourself. Fairly straightforward but also insightful and easy to
| create fun variations with.
|
| [1]: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-
| Drawings/#2,10,0,2,1,0,6,1...
| Nevermark wrote:
| Interest qualia experience I noted.
|
| I "clearly" see lots of dots appear and disappear. It feels
| direct and unassailable. But I never really see a single dot
| appear and disappear. (Without making a very selective effort.)
|
| Clues like that suggest that the qualia answer has mechanistic
| explanation. The signal saying that we see something clearly,
| and actually seeing something clearly, are separable.
|
| Which is true for recognition (Deja vu), knowing (unquestioning
| belief), etc.
|
| We experience certainties and experiences we deem direct, that
| we often attribute to reality, but the measure of certainty and
| directness themselves are just other signals only approximating
| what we think they say.
|
| Our experiences are absolutely full of invisible
| simplifications, internally created opaque illusions, that work
| as efficiencies because we by design do not have the natural
| ability to perceive or question them. No natural inclination to
| seperate experience from internal shorthand, or shorthand from
| reality.
| suddenlybananas wrote:
| It's interesting how some of them halt after a while and some of
| them don't. I wonder if one could figure out which ones do and
| which ones don't?
| dadadad100 wrote:
| You are kidding, right? [0]
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
| Y_Y wrote:
| These are FSMs though, as the tape is finite.
| suddenlybananas wrote:
| It was a (not particularly funny) joke.
| marviel wrote:
| I thought it was great :)
| tromp wrote:
| None of them halt, since no halting state is ever introduced
| into these canvas dwelling TMs :-(
| nialv7 wrote:
| I think GP is actually asking whether we can determine if one
| enters a steady state, i.e. tape no longer changes.
| andoando wrote:
| This is interesting, looks like different patterns at different
| levels of zoom.
|
| https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#20,2,16,1,2,9,1,...
| devrandoom wrote:
| Very impressive! There is something earie and disturbing about
| the animation, some primal instincts triggered.
| pikwip wrote:
| This one leaves a nice impression on your eyes if you stare at
| it: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-
| Drawings/#4,5,2,3,3,0,3,1,...
| deep_u wrote:
| Very cool! Stumbled upon this curious 'phase separation'. There's
| something natural and familiar in the chaos, complexity and
| decay.
|
| https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,10,1,6,1,0,2,0...
| pikwip wrote:
| This one has a few satisfying phases:
| https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#5,3,4,2,2,0,2,1,...
|
| a short film: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-
| Drawings/#7,3,5,2,0,6,2,1,...
|
| long time to reach NESS (if it does at all):
| https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#7,3,3,1,0,0,2,3,...
|
| Cool glyphs: https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-
| Drawings/#4,4,0,2,1,3,1,0,...
| tux3 wrote:
| (Seizure warning, for many of these)
| dgan wrote:
| some of them, somehow, look depressingly similar to out world, i
| feel uneasy watching it being destroyed
| jesterswilde wrote:
| A lot of the style of images this creates are similar to Cellular
| Automata. Especially when you have a piece of information move
| diagonally across the screen.
| aylmao wrote:
| Some I liked and/or found interesting:
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| - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,1,1,2,0,...
|
| - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#6,6,4,2,3,0,4,2,...
|
| - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#6,6,0,5,2,4,3,1,...
|
| - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,6,2,5,1,2,3,3,...
| kqbx wrote:
| here are some of my best finds:
|
| - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,3,3,1,0,...
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| - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#6,3,2,1,0,4,1,1,...
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| - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#7,3,4,1,2,6,1,3,...
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| - https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#7,3,5,1,1,6,2,3,...
| jakeonline wrote:
| I made Langton's ant!
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| https://aesort.com/Turing-Drawings/#4,2,1,1,1,2,1,3,3,1,0,0,...
| colordrops wrote:
| The "rapids" example is impressively natural and organic looking.
| CSMastermind wrote:
| Is it possible to work backwards and take a video and turn it
| into a turing machine using this format?
| danilor wrote:
| I'll share some of the interesting ones I found!
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| https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#8,3,6,1,0,0,1,1,...
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| https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#8,3,3,1,1,3,1,3,...
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| https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,22,1,2,3,1,16,...
| 7373737373 wrote:
| I forked a fork of this and added extra functionality, including
| rating machines, variable simulation speed and canvas size here:
| https://aesort.com/Turing-Drawings/
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