Most of these are created with 6 states, 4 symbols: Bobbing waves: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#3,4,0,1,1,2,3,1,... Grey goo: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,4,0,3,3,4,1,2,... Rain on the window: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,4,2,2,1,0,3,0,... Slow spike growth: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,4,1,2,2,5,1,0,... Two green triangles on a vector display: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,4,1,1,1,1,1,2,... Throbbing triangle: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,4,4,3,0,5,1,2,... 6 state, 3 symbols:
Tearing in the world: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,3,3,2,2,0,2,2,... Flood-fill between black and white: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,3,4,1,2,1,2,1,... Snowdrifts: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,3,2,1,2,2,2,3,... And my favorite:
Pangaea: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,3,0,1,3,1,1,2,...
Definitely agree with you and MattholomewCup that Pangaea is the best of these. At first it looked like static, then as it resolved I was blown away.
Pangaea is awesome! Definitely surprised me with how well it seemed to work. For some reason tearing in the world reminded me of swarms of locusts, haha. A testament to human minds finding patterns where there's really nothing to see.