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Pretty, but does anyone know/understand what the underlying local rules are governing the global imagery? Seems like the author is randomly cycling through some

Pretty, but does anyone know/understand what the underlying local rules are governing the global imagery? Seems like the author is randomly cycling through some variations of underlying parameters to make pretty dynamic pictures? Just curious. Personally, for things like this I like to be able to set the parameters myself and observe the results. It gives me more of a sense of exploring the unknown that can be repeated by using the same parameters.

DustinBrett 4y ago
I'd noticed it had a big models.json file which had a big PNG file encoded inside it. https://znah.net/hexells/models.json https://znah.net/hexells/models.json Also seems to be based on work mentioned here https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/ https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/ which has a cool interactive widget at the top.
- sva_ 4y ago
  There's also a tutorial by the guy who made that site in the OP https://selforglive.github.io https://selforglive.github.io I haven't gone through it yet, but plan to in the next few days.
  - DustinBrett 4y ago
    Oh nice! I will check out this article, hadn't noticed it. I ended up going off of the GitHub repo. https://github.com/znah/hexells https://github.com/znah/hexells when I turned this into a Live Wallpaper.
    - sva_ 4y ago
      I originally found all this by going on his Twitter account https://nitter.net/zzznah https://nitter.net/zzznah He posts/retweets pretty interesting stuff, such as https://nitter.net/evoluchico/status/1503307804043583488#m https://nitter.net/evoluchico/status/1503307804043583488#m
danwills 4y ago
It's a 'neural cellular automata', there are several video tutorials about it on Alexander Mordvintsev's YouTube. I was re-watching one of them last night after maybe a 1.5 month gap and I was astounded how much better I understood it the second time! (The puzzle pieces seemed to fit together much better) Fascinating work!

DustinBrett 4y ago

I'd noticed it had a big models.json file which had a big PNG file encoded inside it. https://znah.net/hexells/models.json https://znah.net/hexells/models.json Also seems to be based on work mentioned here https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/ https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/ which has a cool interactive widget at the top.

sva_ 4y ago
There's also a tutorial by the guy who made that site in the OP https://selforglive.github.io https://selforglive.github.io I haven't gone through it yet, but plan to in the next few days.
- DustinBrett 4y ago
  Oh nice! I will check out this article, hadn't noticed it. I ended up going off of the GitHub repo. https://github.com/znah/hexells https://github.com/znah/hexells when I turned this into a Live Wallpaper.
  - sva_ 4y ago
    I originally found all this by going on his Twitter account https://nitter.net/zzznah https://nitter.net/zzznah He posts/retweets pretty interesting stuff, such as https://nitter.net/evoluchico/status/1503307804043583488#m https://nitter.net/evoluchico/status/1503307804043583488#m

danwills 4y ago

It's a 'neural cellular automata', there are several video tutorials about it on Alexander Mordvintsev's YouTube. I was re-watching one of them last night after maybe a 1.5 month gap and I was astounded how much better I understood it the second time! (The puzzle pieces seemed to fit together much better) Fascinating work!