TᴀᴄᴋᴇʀTᴀᴄᴋᴇʀ 🐰Hey #screenshotsaturday 👋
Made this prototype today, I call it Conway's game of breakout 😜
Made this prototype today, I call it Conway's game of breakout 😜
LR@TackerTacker clever. how many times has it happened yet that your ball got trapped?
@lritter
Never actually. But that is an interesting question 🤔
I think it can't happen since the only stable formation that self heals and can't be broken by the ball is a block of 4 which doesn't have a hollow space to get trapped inside of.
@TackerTacker the fact that you have the answer to this question gives me life - pun intended :)
@TackerTacker what about an arranged cluster of these self-healing structures? i assume reflection would ensure that the ball can escape, but i wonder if there's an arrangement that makes it particularly difficult - like a circular arrangement
@lritter
Currently I start the level like this.
The blocks at the bottom form a barrier that the ball can't break through on its own *.
The barrier has to be broken first by the 2 glider guns at the top left/right. So theoretically there could be a box or circle out of these 4 cell blocks that traps the ball.
(*unless it collision glitches through it and bounces so quickly that it destroys 2 of the cells before the next GoL tick can heal the 4 cell block)
@lritter
But while the barrier is unbreakable for the ball, it is still highly unstable, if there is one change then the whole barrier collapses. So because it is so unstable, I think the likelihood of something like this forming by accident is near zero. Would be as likely as the milk in your coffee unmixing itself 😄
But while the barrier is unbreakable for the ball, it is still highly unstable, if there is one change then the whole barrier collapses. So because it is so unstable, I think the likelihood of something like this forming by accident is near zero. Would be as likely as the milk in your coffee unmixing itself 😄
@TackerTacker an easter egg, so to speak :)