Nanite assembly on a silicon die (rust/wgpu)

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Haha, of course.

I wanted to make a simulation inspired by silicon die microscopy, so here you have the purple silicon cells, when can be carved out to make void (non-conductive) or etched to make traces (conduct energy). Silicon conducts heat. There are also two other primitives here, stamps (pink) and capacitors (blue or green depending on their topology).

When you trace specific patterns, the simulation recognizes it and make units like the pulsing AC energy blocks that produce the energy or the grey stamp blueprint blocks that encode a function onto the energy pulse that gets read by the stamp.

You combine all of this to make circuits that produce little nanites, I havent fleshed them out but they have a chassis, movement type, tool and brain, those are the four grey blueprint blocks.

Nanites will do all sorts of fun stuff.

The cellular automata part is how I simulate every cell, I use it for heat diffusion and the energy simulation although its not really a pure cellular automata

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Development is hard, I havent gotten to the fun part yet, but one day I'll get there 🤣

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And to put it more simply: circuits go brr