What is this mess of blocks?
It's Conways Game of Life. Its neato thing.
Im into it because it has super simple rules, but the result of the rules are pretty complex. Here are the
rules:
- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.
- Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
- Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
- Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
How does the sound work?
I wanted to get a note that was deeper on one side of the grid and higher on the other. Heres how that was done:
- Multiply x and y value of a reproduced cell
- Normalize the result (get the value between 0.0-upper left and 1.0 - lower right
- To get a frequency, multiply normalized value by 1500
- Round the frequency to a nearest C Major Note, giving
us a kinda pleasant sound.
- Now repeat that for all reproduced cells and plug it into a syth and play it!
Thats kinda it. Im happy with how it turned out, even though I wanted to make a more ambient sort of sound with the instrument.