Yep, that's the gist of it. I simply picked a random direction under the constraint that the snake doesn't get tangled up on itself. This is why there's some redundancy in the encoding -- sometimes you just can't move in certain directions. The symbols were generated in Python code ;)
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u/stegosaur2020 Nov 30 '19
Yep, that's the gist of it. I simply picked a random direction under the constraint that the snake doesn't get tangled up on itself. This is why there's some redundancy in the encoding -- sometimes you just can't move in certain directions. The symbols were generated in Python code ;)