This tool is so much fun, and can yield some truly amazing things.
I had the best results with slight increases in states while keeping number of symbols low, but experiment! Share your favorites with their shareable URLS (not the one in your URL bar)!
For a list of awesome ones the creator found, check this out!
Most of these are created with 6 states, 4 symbols: Bobbing waves: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#3,4,0,1,1,2,3,1,... Grey goo: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,4,0,3,3,4,1,2,... Rain on the window: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,4,2,2,1,0,3,0,... Slow spike growth: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,4,1,2,2,5,1,0,... Two green triangles on a vector display: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,4,1,1,1,1,1,2,... Throbbing triangle: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,4,4,3,0,5,1,2,... 6 state, 3 symbols:
Tearing in the world: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,3,3,2,2,0,2,2,... Flood-fill between black and white: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,3,4,1,2,1,2,1,... Snowdrifts: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,3,2,1,2,2,2,3,... And my favorite:
Pangaea: http://maximecb.github.com/Turing-Drawings/#6,3,0,1,3,1,1,2,...
Definitely agree with you and MattholomewCup that Pangaea is the best of these. At first it looked like static, then as it resolved I was blown away.
Pangaea is awesome! Definitely surprised me with how well it seemed to work. For some reason tearing in the world reminded me of swarms of locusts, haha. A testament to human minds finding patterns where there's really nothing to see.
Wow, these are gorgeous! I particularly liked Flow. I find that Shatter's general pattern turns up a lot! Not 100% sure why that is.
Very cool find. Reminds me a lot of cellular automata/game of life. There's a neat CA/game of life tool for those unaware of life: http://golly.sourceforge.net/
Golly is my favorite! Spent a good long year toying around with that and making my own Life rules for shits and giggles.
Not sure what the hell this is? First of all, the link in the check it out should let you find the code. Second of all, check out this okay guide to during machines I just browsed lightly.