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- Langton's Ant (9K) 1999-08-29
- - Langton's Ant is an example of a cellular automata. The idea comes from Christopher Langton who first introduced his "virtual ant" in a 1986 paper titled "Studying Artificial Life with Cellular Automata". Ants follow one simple rule when moving: if the cell it enters is grey it turns to the right, if it is a blue cell it turns to the left. When an ant leaves a square, it changes the color. The movement shows no pattern up until a certain number of iterations, then the ants start building "roads"...
- MoveInCanvas (6K) 1999-08-26
- - Shows how to have a number of "pictures" within a picture (canvas) that you can select and move around (by dragging or by using the arrow keys). The example also allows for multiple selection and moving of "pictures".