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by svachalek 2108 days ago
This is very cool, and gives me a thought, what if you did it without "cheating"? That is, what if the whole game including its rules were in the picture? Something like Conway's game of Life but less shape-dependent, maybe utilizing the color to generate behaviors.
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The closest thing I can think of is Piet: https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
>Richard Mitton supplies this amazing program which calculates an approximation of pi... literally by dividing a circular area by the radius twice.

>Naturally, a more accurate value can be obtained by using a bigger program.

That's delightful