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The Life Engine
- 0x174 4y agoThe author has a YouTube channel and speaks at length about cellular automata and other artificial intelligence. It's a good time! (https://www.youtube.com/@EmergentGarden https://www.youtube.com/@EmergentGarden)
- cactusplant7374 4y agoSubscribed. YouTube never shows me videos I actually want to watch so I forget about promising channels unfortunately.
- Method-X 4y agoThis would make for an awesome screen saver.
- Waterluvian 4y agoNow I’m itching to muck with cellular automata. Anyone have any recommendations for engines (any language)?
- pphysch 4y agoputchar
- Waterluvian 4y agoAhahaha. I mean with all the typical optimizations handled. Quadtree and such.
- xwdv 4y agoYou don’t really need an engine. You just need the right data structure to represent a cell and simple methods. What you may be asking about is visualization. In this case, just use simple drawning functions in a graphics library that will draw a pixel to a screen canvas at the cells coordinates. Update on each tick.
- Avicebron 4y agoI'd use js/typescript/webpack if I wanted to set up something quick
- JoeyBananas 4y agothe best program I'm aware of is called Golly
- d11z 4y agoI agree Golly is the best for specifically cellular automata, but I came across this program called Visions of Chaos and I was shocked to see it essentially supports any and all types of simulation/generative/procedural/AI solvers and renderers OOTB (it downloads them as needed the first time you use each one) and it seems to have new updates almost every time I open the software. Seriously amazing for not only fun but easy access to preconfigured solvers if you want to quickly test out ideas, plus it’s packed with presets too. I’ve racked up many hours using it since finding out about it a few months ago, highly recommend. Their website lists all the features right on the homepage: https://www.softology.pro/voc.htm https://www.softology.pro/voc.htm It even has all the latest in ML, I use it to launch Stable Diffusion and CLIP all the time.
- ineptech 4y agoMan, you weren't kidding, thanks for posting this.
- briga 4y agoReminds me of a Cellular Automata style simulation program I wrote years ago https://youtu.be/RLTL3r55CP0 https://youtu.be/RLTL3r55CP0 This one seems quite a bit more sophisticated but the dynamics are very similar. If you ever get the chance I recommend writing your own life simulator program, it’s great fun! It also demonstrates how easy it is to produce complex behavior from relatively simple instructions
- phailhaus 4y agoNot sure what's up, I just see a blank blue screen and nothing ever happens. Chrome 111.0.5563.147.
- phailhaus 4y agoUpdate: don't use a VPN.
- dananjaya86 4y agoI use a VPN (Mullvad) and confirm that it works (MS Edge on Windows 11).
- buescher 4y agoNeat. I thought it was a peculiar visualization of Conway's Life at first, but it's got a more complex set of rules. The presentation and controls are pretty good. I'd like to be able to see which organism type is which, and especially be able to zoom in on any new ones. It's been running for me for a few minutes at top speed and it hasn't gone over 8 celled organisms, but it had an explosion at some point where it went from just a few species to over 200. I wonder if the algorithm could be memoized like in hashlife.