[HN Gopher] Dynamic Pong Wars
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       Dynamic Pong Wars
        
       Author : rendall
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2025-12-06 11:14 UTC (7 days ago)
        
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       | mock-possum wrote:
       | Haha mine bounced around a bit until they managed to get stuck on
       | eachother right in the middle
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       | It'd be fun to see a line graph mapping the change in score over
       | time - I wonder what the wave function would simplify to? Would
       | it be a sine wave? Or more of a saw, as one side snowballs ahead,
       | then the other inevitably ramps up to recover?
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       | It'd also be cool to save the board state on each step, to find
       | what the board looked like when each side was farthest ahead of
       | the other, and when they were equal - and to play back the entire
       | profession at super speed. Would it look like slime mold pulsing,
       | expanding and contracting? Would there be swirls of white cutting
       | into black and vice versa?
        
       | pohl wrote:
       | Very cool. It eventually got stuck for me, too, towards the
       | bottom. Stuck detection would be a next step.
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       | Then you could plot the change in score for the current war, and
       | overlay other plots that different wars took.
        
       | urbanisierung wrote:
       | This is super cool! I saw the tweet last weekend and decided to
       | (let) build it as well, but with more players:
       | https://pong.u11g.com/
        
         | culi wrote:
         | add `filter: blur(20px)` on the canvas, slow the balls down and
         | don't render them and you have a really nice lava-lamp-esque
         | background effect
        
       | RunSet wrote:
       | similar.
       | 
       | https://redrazo.rs/
        
       | aktuel wrote:
       | It would be even better if the day/night counter would be
       | visualized as a colored shifting slider.
        
       | kayo_20211030 wrote:
       | A bit derivative, but mesmerizing. It's like watching a game of
       | go being played by two demented players.
        
       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192633
        
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