Don's Cellular Automata Gallery

I've written code to play with real time animated cellular automata, that applies a bunch of rules to different parts of an image at once. You can create and delete different rules, move them around and resize them, throw them so they bounce around and leave trails, overlap them to mix their effects together, zoom into the cells and scroll around, and draw into the cells in real time with a few simple painting tools.

Here are some screen snapshots of my favorite rules! Click on the small image to see the first 640x480 image of the sequence, then when that beams in, just click on the image to go to the next one in the sequence, and you'll come back to this index when you're done. Or you can jump to any image by clicking on its number. For more details, check out Fun with Cellular Automata.

• Melting and Drawing
  
  16 images: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

• Brian's Brain
  
  4 images: 01, 02, 03, 04.

• Ecology
  
  1 image: 01.

• Ecology and Melt
  
  3 images: 01, 02, 03.

• Four Direction Hour Glass
  
  2 images: 01, 02.

• Hour Glass Progression
  
  17 images: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

• Seething Dog Vomit
  
  3 images: 01, 02, 03.

• Mixed Worms
  
  2 images: 01, 02.

• Yuppy Worms
  
  2 images: 01, 02.

• Bohemian Worms
  
  2 images: 01, 02.

• Suburban Worms
  
  5 images: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05.