Show HN: HexBOTs – a cellular automaton with robotic lawnmowershttps://hexbot-genesis.netlify.app
Double-click or press N to start a new experiment. I built hexBOTs, an unusual cellular automaton based on deterministic robots. The robots behave a bit like robotic lawnmowers, moving through their environment and reacting according to their individual rules. The robots themselves are fully deterministic — no random functions are used while they are running. What makes them different is their “genetics”: each robot's behavior is defined by a randomly generated genome, which allows for an enormous number of different robot types. Randomness creates the robots, but it doesn't drive them.…