nested simulations

index.html

<canvas></canvas>
<!-- Click to generate a new image -->

nested-simulations.markdown

nested simulations

Even if we are a simulated reality, there is no way to be sure the beings running the simulation are not themselves a simulation, and the operators of that simulation are not a simulation. - David Deutsch

A Pen by Karl Lindberg on CodePen.

License.

script.js

"use strict";
{
	
	const code = {
		setup() {
			this.render({
				startShape: 'WHOLE',
				transform: {s: 4, b: 0.7},
				background: '#333',
				minSize: 0.2,
				fov: 60,
				camDist: 8,
				lightPosition: [0.0, 0.0, -8.0],
				ambientColor: [0.12, 0.12, 0.12],
				specularColor: [1.5, 1.0, 0.25],
				diffuseColor: [0.25, 0.5, 1.2],
				shininess: 6
			});
		},
		rules() {
			return {
				WHOLE: s => {
					this.QUAD(s, {x: -0.5, y: -0.5, z: -0.5});
					this.QUAD(s, {x: 0.5, y: -0.5, z: -0.5});
					this.QUAD(s, {x: -0.5, y: 0.5, z: -0.5});
					this.QUAD(s, {x:  0.5, y: 0.5, z: -0.5});
					this.QUAD(s, {x: -0.5, y: -0.5, z: 0.5});
					this.QUAD(s, {x: 0.5, y: -0.5, z: 0.5});
					this.QUAD(s, {x: -0.5, y: 0.5, z: 0.5});
					//this.QUAD(s, {x:  0.5, y: 0.5, z: 0.5});
				},
				QUAD: [
					1, s => {
						this.CUBE(s, {ry: this.randpos([0, 90])});
					},
					5, s => {
						this.WHOLE(s, {s: 0.45});
					},
					0.5, s => {}
				]
			};
		}
	};
	// import cfdg library
	cfdg.apply(code);
	// run code
	code.setup();
	// Click canvas to generate a new image
	["click", "touchdown"].forEach(event => {
		document.addEventListener(event, e => code.setup(), false);
	});
}

scripts

<script src="https://codepen.io/ge1doot/pen/rdwPLr/"></script>

style.css

html, body {
	overflow: hidden;
	touch-action: none;
	position: absolute;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	background: #000;
}
canvas {
	position: absolute;
	width: 100%; 
	height: 100%;
	user-select: none;
	cursor: pointer;
	background: #000;
}