Langton's Ant

i just spent about 6 hours replicating this program in Java. anybody wants the code for it message me. its so cool. (not quite as intricate or big but does the same thing)

Bel video! Che programma hai usato per farlo???

Ho scritto un programma apposta, che crea un bitmap su disco per ogni fotogramma. Poi ho montato il tutto con strumenti standard.

May be it is because I first change the color, then turn right or left. Since the original sheet squares is white, the first move the ant performs is the second in the loop, so there is a shift

you are a genious

Could you post a download or something of the program. I'd love to check it out.

It really is just one ant. The reason it appears to be expanding on all sides simultaneously is probably because the program is set to run with less updates per second. It's kind of like frames per second, but the FPS of the program is constant. The question is how often the program sends the progress of the ant to your computer to display. If you were to turn the updates per second all the way down [and since that would take a lot of CPU, we'll pretend the ant slows down as well]

you'd be able to see the ant making its pixel-by-pixel journey around the screen. Once it gets very complex the ant usually just moves in a circle around the shape in a very round-a-bout way. But when you speed this up it appears to be expanding on all sides at the same time.

what would happen if u put 2 ants?