This is very cool. Also, the resulting images remind me of Susan Kare's icons for the original Macintosh – or more specifically, her "Steve Icon": https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor....

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Art imitates life. With coronavirus being the dominate thing on my mind, I found myself wanting to make some art — and also felt drawn to cellular automata.

Here’s something I did this week. It’s a 3D cellular automata made in Metal (Apple’s real-time graphics framework) using a 3D texture and compute shader:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9nuxwDpF4O/?igshid=1qqdhzlo6b0h

Maybe I’ll write up a post on it if people are interested in the details.