It's a cellular automata where each line is 'offspring' of the line above it. Breaking down the very first image [0]; on the left we have the rules that determi

It's a cellular automata where each line is 'offspring' of the line above it. Breaking down the very first image [0]; on the left we have the rules that determine what each cell on the next line should be based on the line directly above it. Taking the first one for example if the box above, above and right and above and left are purple the cell is purple. To the right of that we see a full run of that automata starting from 1 orange box to all white boxes after which that set of rules is in a sense dead because it will just be white forever because of the final rule. From there it's taking this and applying some pretty old genetic programming concepts to it to illustrate how we can see evolution in this every simple system. Wolfram has been very interested in cellular automata for a long time trying to find interesting ways to use it or study it even writing a gigantic book about it [1]. [0] https://content.wolfram.com/sites/43/2024/05/sw050124modelimg1.png https://content.wolfram.com/sites/43/2024/05/sw050124modelim... [1] Called a new kind of science, he's made it available online if you're interested in learning about automata in maybe the deepest depth with some fun but ultimately not very useful theoretical applications: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/ https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/