CellPond is a slightly-surreal 'cellular automata' engine that I made for fun.
I've made three videos about it! Check them out:
🦠 Cells in Cells in Cells
🤖 Nothing
🔮 Spellular Automata
CellPond has 2 big ideas:
🐸 You can code it by dragging + dropping shapes.
🐸 Cells can split/merge cells into smaller/bigger cells.
You can try it out at cellpond.cool
(sorry no touch controls yet)
Or, you can download the source code and open index.html in a browser.
It's a secret.
You can use ctrl/cmd+s to save your paddles to a file, and ctrl/cmd+o to load from a file.
You can also use ctrl/cmd+c and ctrl/cmd+v to save and load from your clipboard!
There used to be a diamond shape! It let you add/subtract/swap channels. But I rewrote a lot of stuff for the Spellular Automata video and it broke.
To add/subtract, use the new Hexagon shape instead. You can't swap yet but it's planned.
Don't panic!
Just scroll the mouse wheel while holding down ctrl/cmd/alt/option.
Due to recent advances in technology, you don't need to lock paddles to activate them anymore. Now, your paddles are always active.
Be careful not to lose your squares though!