Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata

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Author: jfil

Date: 7/3/2026

Article Summary:

The author created Mr. Baby Paint, a co-op drawing app for toddlers, and in the process, discovered a flood-fill cellular automata and developed pixel-fattening algorithms for bitmap fonts.