The artist posting as u/watagua on Reddit, and @jaymezd on Instagram, turns a small set of rules into a drawing made of 172,788 individual dots. Four turmites, generalized versions of Langton’s Ant, move across a grid, read and change its cells, and respond to the traces they leave behind. The finished image records more than one million simulated steps.
Each pixel in the simulation becomes a plotted dot. The artist describes the physical work as Tombow markers on 19 × 24 inch bristol paper, drawn with an iDraw H A1 plotter. Separate color layers carry the simulation from screen to paper.
For CDW, this offers a direction for exploring how simple local decisions accumulate into larger structures. Starting positions, rule tables and stopping points could become drawing controls, while dot spacing, pen choice and color order would shape the physical result. These are possibilities for future experiments, with the source work providing a useful reference for the relationship between a system and its marks.
