Dominion has a fair amount of depth, but it seems common for individual player groups to get hung up on a particular play style and decide that they've found the ultimate strategy.
You're probably thinking "one cell = one pixel." In fact "one cell = one 8x8 block of pixels"; the specific pattern of colors in each 8x8 block represents the opcodes of that cell's 64-opcode program. So when the replicator takes over the map, it's changing the image to a repeating pattern of 8x8 blocks.
Now, don't quote me on this part, but I think the first replicator to take over is this (minus all the "junk DNA" between the instructions):
[}<,]}],<}[
and the second, more efficient, one is:
{[}<,]],<}[{
The latter means roughly:
--head1;
while (*head0) { *--head0 = *++head1; }
*head0-- = *head1++;
while (*head0) { --head1;
// CUT HERE
which gets pasted together with whatever cell it's breeding with at the time.
When i worked on image pipeline the images were circular and had to be warped to square.
Also the edges of the circular image were darker than the middle, and needed to be brightened.
CPU affinity?
I haven't been able to change priority in task manager since window 8 i think. Cpu affinity seems only to allow which cores get assigned...not really good management.
Dominion requires to monitor cards that while helpful initially,can burden your hand in the end.
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