ant

Running Langton's ant on Penrose tiling

Building

make

Running

For full usage, run:

./bin/ant-batch -h

./bin/ant -h

Example results

Images generated using kaleidoscope script at ptiles.github.io

./bin/ant -w 2048 -alpha LRR__0.641800__C-8152+D2139__2_500_000

./bin/ant -w 2048 -alpha LRR__0.246000__B5868-A7386__3_500_000_000

./bin/ant RLL__0.000007__D59542+A-67051__25_000_000_000

Batch run

./bin/xargs-ant-batch -n LLR,LRR,RLL,RRL -ic 4 -rc 4 -d results_4_4_500k -s 500_000

./bin/xargs-ant-batch -n LLR,LRR,RLL,RRL -ic 8 -rc 8 -d results_8_8_500k -sc 200_000 -sm 500_000 -sn 200 -s 500_000

References

• Langton's Ant on Penrose Tiling producing a Pentaflake-like Fractal (video) by dropped box
• Langton's Ant draws Koch Snowflake on Penrose Tiling (video) by dropped box
• Pattern Collider by Aatish Bhatia, Henry Reich
• Pattern Collider (GitHub)
• Pentagrids and Penrose Tilings by Stacy Mowry, Shriya Shukla
• deBruijn Mathematical Details by Greg Egan