A "spellular automaton": cellular automaton engineered to spell "Carlos" 12 times
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-31
Developer dela3499 built a cellular automaton (dubbed a "spellular automaton") whose evolution spells his name Carlos 12 times within a tree-like pattern. The visualization shows the last two rows repeating forever after 219 rows — a clever and delightful piece of computational craft.
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