This is super cool! By any chance have you seen Dave Ackley's Movable Feast Machine and related projects? He's working on some similar ideas – cellular automata

This is super cool! By any chance have you seen Dave Ackley's Movable Feast Machine and related projects? He's working on some similar ideas – cellular automata with different classes of cell that pass local state around to build large-scale systems. Here's "demon horde sort", which is a kind of stochastic self-healing bubble-sorting automaton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbgzXndaNKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbgzXndaNKk