Langton's Ant cross-stitch

[squirmelia]

On Twitter, Bridgebyapool suggested doing a Langton's Ant cross-stitch. If the square is white, then it turns black, the ant turns 90 degrees clockwise and then moves one square. If the square is black, then it turns white, the ant turns 90 degrees anti-clockwise and then moves one square.

I coded it in Processing first:


Video of the pattern being generated in Processing: Langton's Ant

Here's the cross-stitch:

Comments

[iguana]

It looks so random for a deterministic algorithm! Very cool :)

[squirmelia]

Thank you! It was much quicker to cross-stitch than the previous one.