Metapixel cluster to display video

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Metapixel cluster to display video

Post by Pascal » April 3rd, 2021, 12:55 am

Hi,

I'm pretty new to GoL, but it's really interesting.

I was wondering if it would be feasible to feed metapixels sets of gliders/spaceships that would correspond to pixels on a video of 32/32 or maybe 64/64.

Thank you!

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Re: Metapixel cluster to display video

Post by Dylan Chen » April 3rd, 2021, 3:44 am

Yes, it is definitely possible.

If you have installed Golly, check hashlife/metapixel-galaxy.
Tools should not be the limit.
Whether your obstacle is a script, an stdin, or Linux environment computing resouces.
check New rules thread for help.

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Re: Metapixel cluster to display video

Post by GUYTU6J » April 3rd, 2021, 6:03 am

Metapixels do not feed on gliders. After drawing a pattern in Golly, select it and run Scripts/Lua/metafier.lua, and you'll get the metapixel presentation of the pattern.

Or... If you want to display arbitraty black/white video, you may need to check HashLife/hexadecimal.mc.gz instead. This similar design codes each frame pixel-by-pixel directly and so any changes of displayed pattern are not constrained by cellular automata rules. Is that what you mean by "correspond to pixels on a video" ?

It is suggested to ask questions like this in the Thread for basic questions rather than in a newly created thread.

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Re: Metapixel cluster to display video

Post by Pascal » April 9th, 2021, 12:22 am

Thank you for the responses!

Also, sorry for replying so slowly.

I want to recreate a 2 color (b&w) video that could be condensed down to 64x60 pixels while still being recognizable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtutLA63Cp8


I will look into hexadecimal.mc.gz, thanks for the help!

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Re: Metapixel cluster to display video

Post by dvgrn » April 9th, 2021, 9:29 am

Pascal wrote:
April 9th, 2021, 12:22 am
I want to recreate a 2 color (b&w) video that could be condensed down to 64x60 pixels while still being recognizable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtutLA63Cp8

I will look into hexadecimal.mc.gz, thanks for the help!
I still have in my old Gmail archives the conversation with Brice Due, when we were working out exactly what movie would end up in hexadecimal.mc.gz. There's some Python code available in attachments that might help with building new movies, if you want it -- but it's very old and Golly has changed a lot since then, so probably it would need a complete rewrite.

The main things I remembered from reading that old thread are that

1) Brice's metapixel movie theater only has room to store something under 200 frames of a movie. We could improve on that either by making the metapixels bigger, or by rebuilding with improved technology. The current hexadecimal.mc.gz has 128-bit depth, but there's room to expand that somewhat without changing the metapixel size -- I forget what the maximum is.

2) Movie patterns like this would definitely run much better in Golly if we rebuilt the metapixel to contain only power-of-two technology, getting rid of the extra factor of 69. This really wouldn't be terribly difficult. Here's a proof-of-concept I built back in January 2007, and we have a lot more good circuit options available now:

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#C trial pure p2^N movie pixel (or half of one) -- full cycle p4096.
x = 600, y = 592, rule = B3/S23
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Re: Metapixel cluster to display video

Post by Pascal » April 9th, 2021, 11:33 pm

Is the script you are mentioning called metafier.py? I've been trying to run that one, but I can't seem to get an output.

I've been editing the hexadecimal.mc pattern manually to see if I could get a cell to change, but so far I've only messed up the metadata or pattern entirely. The syntax is confusing for me still as an absolute beginner.

I've found the video in a binary format by frame though with a 37x28 pixel resolution. I've attached the input file, which I could change to fit whatever metapixel resolution is easiest to adhere to.

As for the 200 frame limit, I could stitch the clips in post to match the video. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevin ... /input.txt

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Re: Metapixel cluster to display video

Post by dvgrn » April 10th, 2021, 9:12 am

Pascal wrote:
April 9th, 2021, 11:33 pm
Is the script you are mentioning called metafier.py? I've been trying to run that one, but I can't seem to get an output.

I've been editing the hexadecimal.mc pattern manually to see if I could get a cell to change, but so far I've only messed up the metadata or pattern entirely. The syntax is confusing for me still as an absolute beginner.

I've found the video in a binary format by frame though with a 37x28 pixel resolution. I've attached the input file, which I could change to fit whatever metapixel resolution is easiest to adhere to.

As for the 200 frame limit, I could stitch the clips in post to match the video. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevin ... /input.txt
No, metafier.py will build you a custom set of actual metacells -- very different from the movie-theater pixels in hexadecimal.mc.gz. I don't think the movie-builder script is posted anywhere; certainly it's not anywhere very obvious.

Unfortunately, the script in my old email that I thought was the movie-builder script appears instead to be an early broken draft of metafier.py. Might take some serious digging to find the old script. But it's really easier to just rebuild the movie-theater pixels at a pure power of two to use a different memory storage system -- just keep a loop of MWSSes cycling around the square, instead of all that complicated tractor-beam stuff. It should be possible to store a much longer movie that way, anyway, and run it more quickly in Golly.

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