Reminds me of an old project of mine: n-gram chess. Similarly ok in openings, awful in endgames, and generally bad at chess.

https://github.com/ElliotPenson/n-gram-chess

Love the board! I tried unicode chess pieces, but Colab made them all wonky. https://imgur.com/onVznER

Big fan of the Lisp too. Gorgeous code.

I bet if you benchmark your n-gram vs GPT-2, it will perform the same.

For chess application i mean

Sorry about the trouble. Should be fixed now (https://github.com/ElliotPenson/fractal.parts/issues/51)

Author here. Happy to answer any questions.

Firstly, I think this is a cool idea. Fractals are fun to look at and play with. Please take this feedback as being positively-intentioned :)

During the tutorial I clicked Add and some boxes were created. I dragged them around on the canvas. I have no concept of how the resulting image [0] relates to what I created. It doesn't look like the kind of fractals (Mandelbrot etc) that I'm familiar with.

I also didn't figure out how to do anything other than move some boxes around. Probably I just missed something.

[0] https://fractal.parts/i-dont-get-it <-- if you click the "Attractor" (what does that mean?) toggle in the top right you can see the "Template" I created in the editor.

The fractals on this site are not "escape-time fractals" like the Mandelbrot set, but iterated function systems[1], a more discrete fractal variant that starts with an initial generating set and then replaces each element with a smaller copy of the whole set (a good example would be ferns).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function_system

Agreed, I can't see how the output is produced from the input, e.g https://fractal.parts/dfdfdfdfd it took several tries to even produce anything other a totally blank output.

Here's my try. Any idea why it didn’t result in the Sierpinsky triangle?

https://fractal.parts/test-a1d7

I can't seem to create more than 1 box of the same color.

Thanks for giving the site a try! Simple answer: the shapes in your template are too small. Try scaling the squares to 1/2 the size of that larger, white square in the center. This can be seen in the template for https://fractal.parts/sierpinski.

Each shape that you add is a transformation from the base shape. The base shape is that large, white square that appears when you first head to fractal.parts/create. The transformations in your template are around 1/4 the size of the base shape. Your template also has a fair bit of whitespace. Together this produces a fractal that progressively disappears.

@TimTheTinker I've deployed a new version of the site that defaults shapes to half the size of the base. Hopefully that helps!