Tacky Turtle [web, Win, Mac, Linux] [non-game, random computer generated graphics]

I’ve made a simple non-game program called Tacky Turtle. Basically, it’s a virtual machine that runs randomly generated programs (any combinations of symbols is a valid program), and the program controls a turtle which leaves a trail behind it.

The program’s memory is a ‘tape’ which you can see on the right of the screen.

Click ‘Play’ and then ‘Randomize’.

Here’s a YouTube video of it in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvhlZ5lADCA

Download links:

* New 3D Version: http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/software/tackyturtle3d/

You can share any interesting programs by clicking ‘Share’ and copying the link. Clicking that link will load the web player with that program pre-loaded. On desktop versions, you can load links by pasting it into the ‘Share’ dialog and clicking ‘Load’.

Fun stuff, thanks for sharing it!

I’ve made a 3D version of Tacky Turtle:

http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/software/tackyturtle3d/

This time the turtle draws to a 256x256x256 voxel volume.