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Parallelizing Cellular Automata with WebGPU Compute Shaders

65 points by ibobev 1y ago

MomsAVoxell 1y ago
A friend of mine has done something similar, albeit he turned it into quite an engine for creating CA universes: https://wizard23.github.io/evocell/cellspace.html https://wizard23.github.io/evocell/cellspace.html "All rule lookups and most of the collission detections are calculated on the GPU." Every time I swing by Evocell to have a look, I am impressed with the performance he has managed to gain ..
danwills 1y ago
I've been interested in continuous automata for a good while! I usually call it "Reaction Diffusion" (good old Turing!) but a lot of people hearing that might think I might just mean "Gray Scott", but I actually mean the whole realm of solving various types of equations (in feedback of course) on continuous-valued fields. My software of choice for that is gollygang/Ready (where some of my experiments are available to play with in the release) and also Houdini, to use the resulting simulation data in whatever way one creatively desires! Here's one from my channel: https://youtu.be/W6sO8ZkgU9s?si=x-_e3j4IFX0qtekL https://youtu.be/W6sO8ZkgU9s?si=x-_e3j4IFX0qtekL Edit:Typo
jekude 1y ago
I have been asking myself for a while: Why has Artificial Life not had its AlexNet moment with GPUs yet?
- lawlessone 1y ago
  a lot harder to turn into a product i think? I've seen people use it to generate music but it wasn't great. And the odd study using it for X or Y. But it's mostly always seemed like a software toy
tensorlibb 1y ago
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brimtown 1y ago
Had hoped to see Neural Cellular Automata [1] mentioned as an extension of continuous, learnable automata. [1] https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/ https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
calibas 1y ago
Is something wrong with Substack's CSS, or is that abomination of a scrollbar intentional? It's not just this site either, I see the same thing on Substack's homepage as well.
antonkar 1y ago
Can be useful for the binary tree “quantum ethics”: https://x.com/maskedmelonusk/status/1966653895398088872 https://x.com/maskedmelonusk/status/1966653895398088872

65 points by ibobev 1y ago

A friend of mine has done something similar, albeit he turned it into quite an engine for creating CA universes: https://wizard23.github.io/evocell/cellspace.html https://wizard23.github.io/evocell/cellspace.html "All rule lookups and most of the collission detections are calculated on the GPU." Every time I swing by Evocell to have a look, I am impressed with the performance he has managed to gain ..

danwills 1y ago

I've been interested in continuous automata for a good while! I usually call it "Reaction Diffusion" (good old Turing!) but a lot of people hearing that might think I might just mean "Gray Scott", but I actually mean the whole realm of solving various types of equations (in feedback of course) on continuous-valued fields. My software of choice for that is gollygang/Ready (where some of my experiments are available to play with in the release) and also Houdini, to use the resulting simulation data in whatever way one creatively desires! Here's one from my channel: https://youtu.be/W6sO8ZkgU9s?si=x-_e3j4IFX0qtekL https://youtu.be/W6sO8ZkgU9s?si=x-_e3j4IFX0qtekL Edit:Typo

jekude 1y ago

I have been asking myself for a while: Why has Artificial Life not had its AlexNet moment with GPUs yet?

lawlessone 1y ago
a lot harder to turn into a product i think? I've seen people use it to generate music but it wasn't great. And the odd study using it for X or Y. But it's mostly always seemed like a software toy

tensorlibb 1y ago

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brimtown 1y ago

Had hoped to see Neural Cellular Automata [1] mentioned as an extension of continuous, learnable automata. [1] https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/ https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/

calibas 1y ago

Is something wrong with Substack's CSS, or is that abomination of a scrollbar intentional? It's not just this site either, I see the same thing on Substack's homepage as well.

antonkar 1y ago

Can be useful for the binary tree “quantum ethics”: https://x.com/maskedmelonusk/status/1966653895398088872 https://x.com/maskedmelonusk/status/1966653895398088872