Is this a blog post that I see before me?

This is a quick blog to share some awesome with you. I have spent the afternoon playing with my new macro, and have acquired a rather compulsive attitude towards 8-bit images.

Using Langton's Ants on Excel! Hmm, maybe it won't catch on.

Ah hem. You can expect the next few blog's to completely consist of 8-bit images I have stolen from the internet and coloured in using ants. And in case you have just joined the blog I am not pulverising a colony of ants from my back garden then using the resulting paste to defile a children's colouring-in book. They are digital ants. Which makes it okay. I think, I am yet to check this with the RSPCA. And so on to the images:

Do you get +1/2 life if you eat the first one?

It was when I was making the mushroom that I realised it would be much easier if I could use the same mechanism to colour in the edges as I do for selecting the colour of ants and adding the highlights. I also added the ability to make 'white' ants, which I needed for the face of the mushroom.

Pretty freakin' awesome

I got the pattern for this one off a blog. This is the coolest thing yet to come out of this project by a rather embarrassing amount. I have noticed a trend in my blog posts in that I very nearly never come back and do anything that I have put in a list. It is very probable that this list will suffer the same fate. This is a list of things I want to 8-bitanterize:

• A world map. Mercator's projection naturally, although I could be persuaded to go Gnomonic.
• Harry Potter.
• A famous painting.
• A random picture off of Facebook.

Those are in order of do-able but time consuming to impossible but I'll bloody well kill myself trying.

4159,

mathmo