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Show HN: Terra, a JS framework for cellular automata and biological simulations

by rileyjshaw on 8/23/14, 6:04 PM with 31 comments

  • by ttty on 8/23/14, 9:52 PM

    I intent to use this on my planets in my game: http://54.77.31.219/ looking for this kind of stuff for some time. glad it appeared on hn (: thanks
  • by azeirah on 8/24/14, 1:07 AM

    I made a really simple l-systems lib if anyone is interested. If fits in the same general vein of natural-computing.

    https://github.com/Azeirah/L-Systems

  • by Rhapso on 8/23/14, 9:10 PM

    this is a background in this vein I did a while ago.

    http://www.glidr.net/

    It runs a lot slower than it could. Running it faster made it less appealing. (works on mobile)

  • by kordless on 8/23/14, 10:41 PM

    It would be awesome if the 'examples' actually showed you how to get it going yourself. I don't see any sample HTML anywhere, and your main page's JavaScript is compressed.
  • by johnhenry on 8/24/14, 2:12 AM

    Every so often, I sit down and begin making something like this. Then I get distracted and I forget about it for a while. This is really awesome!
  • by RobotCaleb on 8/23/14, 7:15 PM

    This is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing, rileyjshaw.
  • by Igglyboo on 8/23/14, 7:41 PM

    Absolutely love this, Game of Life/Cellular Automaton never cease to amaze me even with such simplistic rules.
  • by possibilistic on 8/24/14, 10:08 AM

    Riley, this is beautiful. The design, docs, colors, presentation--just fantastic. Awesome work! :)
  • by josealicarte on 8/23/14, 7:49 PM

    This is awesome, lot of update via code :), thanks this can be use for my future references
  • by binocarlos on 8/23/14, 7:42 PM

    That's really cool and a whole new world to discover via code - thanks!
  • by daemonk on 8/23/14, 8:06 PM

    Hey Riley, this is Damian from hackerschool. Nice work. I remember you showed a prototype of this project on one of the thursday presentations.
  • by pokpokpok on 8/23/14, 7:29 PM

    Love it! emergent complexity, pixels, and colors! I'm working on a similar project I want to show you if you make it to a Queens Hack Night this year :)