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We've stowed away all the 120v devices, untied the lines and have begun our sail north toward Juneau, Alaska! We will sail through the inside passage and out at the northern tip of Vancouver Island.

As we hop between anchorages, I'd like to try exploring the question: Is a graphical environment running on top a naive string rewriting computer possible, or even usable?

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now

in reply to Murilo

I have heard of it, but I've never tried to run it, or seen anything, I've only read about it. Is it possible to run it today?

What I'm working on is a bit different tho, it's more like a graphical environment where all computation is a rewrite rule, not like a L-System, more like, say Oberon, but written in rules.

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in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

I have never ran the BITPICT software (I did a few homebrew implementations hehe), but as far as I understood is a cellular automata like engine with variable neighborhood/event window and all the computation is done through pixel rewrites. I am not super familiar with Oberon, but this article discuss a few ideas around building interfaces with pixel rewrite, I guess it could be generalized as symbol/sign/tile rewrites?

I am following your string rewriting exploratiom very excited to see what is going to come out of it :B

in reply to Murilo

this videos are quite cool plus this "bitpict implements itself" title is like clickbait for me hahah https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/83491
in reply to Murilo

@murilove Oh wow, this is a treasure trove. Thanks for the links, going through it all right now. : )
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

good luck! 🤞 i'm back to thinking about exotic number systems for #uxn, #modal, hoax, etc.
in reply to ⛧ esoterik ⛧

@d6 I'm excited to see you excited :> Looking forward to see how we can turn this into pretty things over the summer!
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

And I am wondering if you will be sharing your depth data with depth.openseamap.org, and if the rocks tucked into the SW corner of Port Elizabeth on Gilford Island are still a place to build a fantasy island retreat or not. (If you have a license, the rocky shingle had a variety of shellfish, though the divers may have gotten there since we visited last.)
in reply to Amgine

@amgine we don't have a way to share this right now unfortunately. Also, our depth sounder is kind of spotty, I'm not sure I'd trust it to send accurate readings.

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