NKS Explorer 2022

1) Slight cosmetic changes to Settings screen. 2) Fixed a bug in the FSM (Finite State Machine) rule exploration screen that tallied the various graphs incorrectly

1) The rules displayed in slideshow now takes over the entire screen. 2) A new mode on the Nearest Neighbors screen called "Tag" lets you bookmark more than one nearest neighbor before returning to the Main screen. Once you return to the Main screen hitting the Slideshow button will cycle through those bookmarked neighbors. Returning to the Nearest Neighbor screen erases any bookmarked list of rules. A bookmark list, when present, always take precedence over the traditional slideshow. 3) An additional style of navigating nearest neighbor rules has been added. It's called "FSM" because it's uses Finite State Machine type graphs. Using this method the 27 input neighborhoods are gathered in groups of 3. Each group has the same left and right neighbor cells, then the three center cells (white, gray, black) are represented as an orbit within this miniature finite state graph. Tapping on any one of these graphs ratchets the orbit up or down to more complex or more simple configurations. 4) The white cells can be replaced by a random color gradient. Activate this feature in the Settings screen.

When you take a screenshot of the current pattern, you can now add a comment which will appear as a footnote in the jpeg.

• Added a camera icon to the main screen which takes a screenshot of the current pattern and places the jpeg immediately in your Photo Album. So now, you can quickly save interesting patterns without anointing them "Favorite" status. • On the Nearest Neighbor screen there is now a "tag" mode which lets you bookmark a subset of the thumbnails. This group can then be viewed in a custom SlideShow on the main screen. The group is automatically cleared every time the Nearest Neighbor screen is revisited.

App now comes preloaded with 80 beautiful patterns to inspire you, and get you started on your journey of discovery.

• Version 2022.06.18 let's the user define their own Favorites category names. Previously stored Favorites can now be edited or completely deleted, as well as flagged to be included in or deleted from the Slide Show.  • New User Settings features include: (1) Define custom color palette, (2) Set length of archived session history, (3) Reset session history.  • Eliminated largest Cellular Automata cell size of 32 pixels in favor of adding an intermediate smaller cell size of 3. Fixed bug in the popup jeweler's loupe magnifying glass which incorrectly set the size of the region to be magnified.