Poll of the Day > I'm going to do an experiment with static noise

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I was up all night thinking of how something could sustain reproduce and evolve in static noise, as long as the noise changed depending on its neighbors far and wide.

https://i.imgur.com/pu7JbWF.gif

So the closest comparison would be the game of life, except not so simple. Each pixel would have its own random behavior. Create a pixel X and Y away, do that only if a condition is met, die if some condition is not met. Something like that. I'm going to start simple, each pixel will be stored as an RGB value on a bitmap. That gives me 4 bytes, or 32 1s and 0s, to store all data representing a pixel. That way I can run it on a GPU pretty quickly.

My hope is that it leads to some entities like mold or particles that attempt to destroy each other in an evolutionary race. It gives me some real "fabric of reality" vibes.

Now what may be really interesting... is that these entities might not even take any recognizable form. They would just be living in the static, taking on some form we could never possibly comprehend.

https://i.imgur.com/UaLpJOK.png

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This is not the stupidest shit I've ever heard

But it's close

ReggieTheReckless posted...

This is not the stupidest shit I've ever heard

But it's close

Yeah that's what everyone would have told me irl if I told them

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So you want to create digimon?

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No see what you do is you set up a video camera and aim it at a screen that you have it connected to so that it is showing a live feed of itself

itll summon ghosts and shit

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Mead posted...

No see what you do is you set up a video camera and aim it at a screen that you have it connected to so that it is showing a live feed of itself

itll summon ghosts and shit

That's sort of actually the same concept except it never really stabilizes, it either cycles through the colors or just goes white

I want to see some pixels fighting each other for existence.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

So you want to create digimon?

More like digimold

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static shock
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The static is everywhere.

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Results before this topic dies... and with only around 3 hours of sleep each night on top of my full time job.

One part to establish; this is a recursive shader. It will shade the previous output. Like mead said this is very similar to pointing a camera at its own live recording.

https://i.imgur.com/aJkUQvE.gif

This is nothing evolutionary like I want, each pixel has one static rule, in this one it creates a shrinking space and a fractal.

I have it set so if one pixel crosses the boundaries it will loop to the other side. While it is possible for pixels to be destroyed, in this one it will loop infinitely.

Barely scratched the surface and I'm already getting interesting visuals.

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While you have asploded my brain on understanding the contexts, I like the concepts you are introducing here

I don't really have much to add except that TV or radio static is borderline hallucination-inducing for me (yet it seems I have been hallucinating 24/7 anyway, these things, or any background noise such as a fan or environment, just sets the stage for more of it to occur)

But good luck

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The seed is 38 this time

https://i.imgur.com/NEZKmrU.gif

I can confirm, not only is this a fractal, but it's a fractal where the smaller instances are the bigger instance running at a faster speed.

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just download darwin bots


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helIy posted...

just download darwin bots

Meh, I want to try something new

Trying to think of some rules. Any suggestions and I will try them out. Currently, it's just copy yourself to the pixels defined by your red and green value. (a relative value)

https://i.imgur.com/KX00ctn.png

There are lines but also clouds. Weird. I can't tell what they're doing. It's not moving, I think it may be bugged.

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