Did you by any chance experiment with more than 3 states?

Also, nice to see you're back! :D

Not yet, but that is what i will do next :D Thanks, observable is still the best tool & community for this :)

I tried to do it in this notebook: https://observablehq.com/@timhau/rock-paper-scissors-with-multiple-states not sure if there are some floating point errors, as i use the color in the texture to decode a state.

I tried making the number of neighbors vary across the texture (and time) to see if it leads to interesting phase changes: https://observablehq.com/d/7005bde9daaa870f It probably works better with more than three states

If you change "neighbors" to "surrounding area" with a varying radius you also get a bit more "slack": https://observablehq.com/d/3b05e5555a9dd9f4

that is so cool!! thanks for sharing :)

Thanks! Although tbh it's a relatively simple remix after all the hard work you put into this cool notebook! :)