I feel like the difference between "made" and "discovered" depends on how you get there. If you're tinkering with cellular automata, and you notice a rule that

I feel like the difference between "made" and "discovered" depends on how you get there. If you're tinkering with cellular automata, and you notice a rule that makes something pretty, I'd say you "discovered" it. If, on the other hand, you study cellular automata until you have a deep understanding of their behavior, and you use that knowledge to determine a rule that will produce a particular aesthetic, you "made" it. So by that reasoning, the rule was discovered. The program that renders it in a browser was made.