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Turing Drawings Followup
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Pointers Gone Wild
Late last night, I was surprised when a friend informed me that a fork of my Turing Drawings project had made its way to the front page of Hacker News. Intuitively, it seemed that Turing machines would be an ideal formalism because, even if they were randomly generated in a naive fashion, they would have a high likelihood of creating complex (and potentially interesting) visual patterns as a side effect of their computational process. Users of Turing Drawings may find themselves clicking the "random" button many times before seeing anything interesting, but through the power of crowdsourcing, it becomes possible to explore hundreds of thousands of patterns in a relatively short time.