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1. sejo@merveilles.town's status on Friday, 14-Jan-2022 05:39:48 UTC sejo

   for the virtual pet jam, i'm starting to visualize the state of 16 NOR gates (with 1 or 2 inputs) + 3 inputs + a constant that make up a 3-bit counter*

   my hypothesis is that i can find a way to spatially arrange these bits such that a somewhat meaningful image of a "pet" arises in each one of the 8 states.

   the idea being that you could compute the gates by hand on a board, and then obtain a visual of the new state of this "virtual" being.

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   • sejo@merveilles.town's status on Friday, 14-Jan-2022 05:39:47 UTC sejo

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     • Devine Lu Linvega

     @neauoire NOR'D ALERT

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   • Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Friday, 14-Jan-2022 05:39:48 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

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     @sejo NERD ALERT

   • sejo@merveilles.town's status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 04:34:41 UTC sejo

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     • Devine Lu Linvega

     @neauoire each square can only have one of two possible colors (of beans, pieces, values), and they start empty. the notation shows the logic operation that you have to solve to get the value of that specific square.

     for example, a8 at the top left implies that its value is "b7 OR d3"; or h1 at the bottom right would be "NOT g7".

     my plan is to generate a clearer visual representation of these rules on a board, so that it's easier to follow / solve.

     did i make sense? 😅

   • Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 04:34:41 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

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     @sejo you're moving dangerously close to implementing a spreadsheet program, just sayin' :thisisfine:

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   • sejo@merveilles.town's status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 04:34:42 UTC sejo

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     coming up with some kind of human-and-machine-readable notation to express logical relationships between squares in a (chess)board :)

     i'm showing here the digital "circuit" for my virtual pet for the jam!

     on this year i plan to continue exploring this kind of logical nets on 8x8 boards to be solved/performed by hand :tealheart:

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   • Devine Lu Linvega (neauoire@merveilles.town)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 04:34:42 UTC Devine Lu Linvega

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     @sejo this is more pieces than chess pieces, what is the table representing?

   • sejo@merveilles.town's status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 04:34:43 UTC sejo

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     almost done, i think! i still see the moving "pair of eyes" that were the first thing i put there, but i don't know if you see them and/or if the states make some kind of sense...
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   • sejo@merveilles.town's status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 04:34:43 UTC sejo

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     managed to solve it in some way! at some point i thought this was going to be impossible.

     the pixels that change in the creature correspond to the internal state of a 3-bit counter built with NOT and OR logic gates.

     the idea being that one will be able to solve the counter by hand and simultaneously make their "pet" advance in time.

     this was a nice collaboration between nasu and a small program i made to keep track of the pixels and their states.

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   • sejo@merveilles.town's status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 04:34:44 UTC sejo

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     trying an alternative visualization of the changing bits of the "pet".

     each column would correspond to the state of one or more pixels in the final drawing/screen.

     i'm finding it tricky to use them all... i might reserve some section of the 'screen' for "noise" (like the ground?) so that i can use less changing bits for the drawing.

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