{"id":215576,"date":"2025-06-07T09:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/langtons-ants-and-turing-machines"},"modified":"2025-06-07T09:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:04:50","slug":"langtons-ants-and-turing-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/langtons-ants-and-turing-machines","title":{"rendered":"Langton\u2019s Ants and Turing Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7x9J7rsLC50?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ant Simulator: <a href=\"https:\/\/evolvecode.io\/turmites\/index.html\">https:\/\/evolvecode.io\/turmites\/index.html<\/a>.<br \/> Source code: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MaxRobinsonTheGreat\/turmites\">https:\/\/github.com\/MaxRobinsonTheGreat\/turmites<\/a>.<br \/> This is a video about Langton\u2019s ants, turmites, and turing machines. On and on and on it goes, will it halt? Nobody knows.<\/p>\n<p>~ LINKS ~<br \/> Pezzza\u2019s Ant Sim: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hTHpEF_jcu4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hTHpEF_jcu4<\/a><br \/> Discord (see langtons-ants channel) <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/GZWd2qySce\">https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/GZWd2qySce<\/a>.<br \/> Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/emergentgarden\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/emergentgarden<\/a>.<br \/> Ko-fi: <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/emergentgarden\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/emergentgarden<\/a>.<br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/max_romana\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/max_romana<\/a>.<br \/> Bluesky: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/emergentgarden.bsky.social\">https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/emergentgarden.bsky.social<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>~Timestamps~<br \/> (0:00) Langton\u2019s Ants.<br \/> (3:32) Turmites.<br \/> (7:26) Emergent Patterns.<br \/> (10:13) Busy Beavers.<br \/> (11:56) Evolving Ants?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ant Simulator: https:\/\/evolvecode.io\/turmites\/index.html. Source code: https:\/\/github.com\/MaxRobinsonTheGreat\/turmites. This is a video about Langton\u2019s ants, turmites, and turing machines. On and on and on it goes, will it halt? Nobody knows. ~ LINKS ~ Pezzza\u2019s Ant Sim: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hTHpEF_jcu4 Discord (see langtons-ants channel) https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/GZWd2qySce. Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/emergentgarden. Ko-fi: https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/emergentgarden. Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/max_romana. Bluesky: https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/emergentgarden.bsky.social. ~Timestamps~ (0:00) Langton\u2019s Ants. (3:32) Turmites. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}