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What a beautiful visualization. I will try this on my electronics loving child, see if it takes.

If at all possible: add resistors and capacitors. With those two added you can make many more interesting circuits (Schmitt triggers, a-stable stuff).

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Hi, thanks! Today the game is focused on digital logic, It would be fun to put resistors, capacitors or maybe transistors, maybe as a mod, but the algorithm would be a little different, would need analog simulation which I'm less familiar with.

Would probably be slower but doable, fun mod for the future!

Nand gates you already have and they can take the place of transistors for now, so C's and R's would bring the most options at once. And LEDs, but those should be very easy.

If you are mapping the lines where each pixel has resistance and capacitance (presumably quite small values) could you add a new pixel type with editable resistance / capacitance and hide it behind a graphic of the schematic representation (i.e. the zigzag of a resistor like --\/\/\-- or capacitor like --|(-- ?

Your current algorithm would need to be able to accept a wider range of values but it seems like it would work from a math standpoint.

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