Global Hexagonal Awareness Project

07/24/2020

The Hexagonal Awareness Project is excited to announce our first tokenized piece of cryptoart on SuperRare — a 34-cell, 19-state automaton as a 960x960 GIF loop. It also spins! This is an important step towards bringing the greater hexagonal consciousness movement more fully into the blockchain space. Why not place a bid today on this important piece of hexagonal history?

https://superrare.co/artwork-v2/hexagenesis-1-12147

06/26/2020

Another hexagonal automaton featuring an animation style similar to the last one, but with a new 18-neighbor conditional averaging rule.

Starting from our ground state we enter a period of chaos and perturbance before settling into a stable glide path towards equilibrium and, ultimately, death. The interesting part, as always, is in the middle — between form and homogeneity, being and nothingness.

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06/24/2020

This dense-spreading automaton rule seems to always eventually fall into a ten-step loop, usually between ~1,000 and 1,000,000 steps. This particular loop begins at step 2,694 on a 30-radius grid. Inconceivable!

05/12/2020

An inspiring Tuesday automaton featuring a binary single-neighbor rule, with each inactive cell activated when it has precisely one active neighbor, and is then for a total of nine steps, cycling through color states, before becoming inactive again. Only inactive cells are subject to the single-neighbor rule — those that reach the top active state revert to inactive regardless of how many neighbors they have.

This is similar to the automaton in our previous short video, "A persistent one-neighbor rule," which featured a fifteen-step cycle with a similar setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrVh25usLt0

As we've discussed elsewhere, the spiral tiling of superhexagonal grids induces a sort of chiral behavior on wraparound automata — a denizen of our origin cell heading towards any of its six edges would eventually come back one row or column of cells away from their starting point. This means that after a certain progression of states many initially-fully-symmetric states will become chiral (that is, having a form that will be different when mirrored — i.e. having "handedness"). What was interesting about these rules when I first experimented with them was the lag in the induction of this chirality. A similar, sixteen-state rule on a 90-cell grid took over 1,600 steps before chirality overtook the cells near the starting point (which happened to be the origin but which could have been anywhere). Being a smaller grid with a somewhat tighter holding sequence, the present model wraps around relatively quickly — in the first third or so of this video. Nonetheless we have named the video in honor of this effect, as we draw inspiration from this chiral assault on the reflection-symmetric pretenses of our once-ordered core world about the origin. From the farthest reaches of the eccentric wilderness, it bears down relentlessly and without mercy or respite on all our long-held symmetric ideals.

The music is a selection from a recent neural network, augmented with a bassline and some tasteful background tones.

For more exciting automata videos plz see our YouTube channel, "Hexagonal Awareness": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf-ml0bmw7OJZHZCIB0cx3g

03/19/2020

Hexfriends — Looking for "calming" media to consume while studying/working/disinfecting/etc. in these lame times? Why not check out the Hexagonal Awareness YouTube corpus, now featuring over several hours of ambient, hexagonal audiovisual experiences.

Also plz subscribe so we can finally get a custom URL. Thx.

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03/19/2020

Plz join us for the global premiere of our latest cellular automaton video, "Being and Cubelessness," at 14:00 ET, 18:00 GMT.

A celebration of cubes and cubic identity in the hexagonal consciousness movement via the magic of cellular automata. Featuring the debut track by a newly-tr...

02/22/2020

A twelve-state hexagonal automaton proceeding by a nine-configuration rule. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2kstPsipKo

12/27/2019

If you haven't seen it already, plz take a moment to read over this important post from our good friends at Hexagons about Elderwood Academy's attempts to suppress the free exchange of hexagonal ideas, and what u can do about it — namely, back Lawful Masses with Leonard French's modest fundraising campaign and spread the word. We must fight to uphold our values in the face of this sort of behavior, which does not meet the standards we expect from our brothers and sisters in the hexagonal movement.

Leonard J. French Oppose Elderwood's Trademark on "Hex Dice Boxes" Chris Taylor Jr. received various copyright and trademark-based takedown notices from Elder

09/08/2018

Do you enjoy things? Why not join Cambridge Hexagonal Awareness for our annual late summer meeting this coming Wednesday:

Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 6:30 PM: Hexfriends! Let us observe the celestial antipode of Hexagonal Awareness Month with another of our periodic gatherings for dinner, drinks, and hexagonal discussion.As usual

03/04/2018

Hexagonal Awareness Month is the perfect time of year to invite the spirit of the hexagon back into our lives, and to consider how we might become more aware of hexagons than we already are. Why not celebrate hexagonal consciousness with Cambridge this week at our annual winter meeting:

Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 6:30 PM: March is of course Hexagonal Awareness Month. Let us meet for dinner and/or drinks to discuss the winter's hexagonal issues. Possible topics of relevance:• 3D printing and i