Lenia: Expanded Universe 1080p

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Published 2020-07-21

How life-like can artificial life be?

Lenia is a continuous cellular automata, a form of artificial life, that was evolved from Conway's Game of Life. Previously we showed that Lenia can produce a large variety of self-organizing, highly symmetic patterns.

Now we take Lenia to higher dimensions and multiply the system's complexity. This opens up a whole new world of exploding diversity and new emergent phenomena, including: self-boundary, self-replication, internal division of labor, phenotypic polymorphism, and strange 3D/4D physiology.

Sometimes it's hard to tell we are looking under a microscope or at a computer simulation.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2005.03742
Code: github.com/Chakazul/Lenia
Music: soundcloud.com/morusque/tissage-nautique
Seminar talk: (coming soon)
Previous video: • Lenia - Mathematical Life Forms
Website: chakazul.github.io/

All Comments (21)

@d3nt391 2 years ago

Oh man, thank you for the coolest cellular automata ever discovered
@kyyay2283 3 years ago

Interesting to see the different colors interact; I especially like the part where the blue lines expand and then the red starts expanding on top of it. (1:25)
@PunmasterSTP 1 year ago

This was insane, especially the "3D physiology" part! I can't wait to play around with the code. Thank you so much for developing and sharing this!
@ShrekPNG 3 years ago

i can't believe that this is all a computer simulation
@plortopod9908 3 years ago

I am absolutely in awe. This is groundbreaking.
@veztron 3 years ago

Awesome higlights from your project Bert! I appreciate how well the visuals and ideas are synced to the music. This video tells a great story.
@Kram1032 3 years ago

absolutely beautiful
@romain9273 3 months ago

Great simulation, I downloaded Lenia, anyone found how to create our own structures in the js version?
@MiningGodBruce 2 years ago

Beautiful vid. The song and visuals at 2:04 are very good. It does seem like you are only simulating smaller scale experiments (up to 100 cells on screen). Is this because individual cells take up much larger discrete neighborhoods? Are the 3D/4D versions pixelated because they were so computationally expensive? Does the RGB colormap have anything to do with vector-valued data? Or is it just a way to represent scalar valued data? I assume the latter, since 3D visualizations look like they are volumetric accumulations going through a scalar colormap.
@MarinatedPasta 2 years ago

I can’t get enough of this
@nicopb4240 3 months ago

beautiful, thank you!
@luizlokos1 3 years ago

Amazing!
@velhacega 2 years ago

this is fantastic
@theadissons1372 3 years ago

I would like to see more this is very amazing
@nozome-jin 5 months ago

It felt like I was watching an animation from the near future... What surprised me most was that simulations have made it possible to discuss the possibility of the existence of multidimensional creatures.
@boeckerli 2 months ago

One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen 🤩
@endingalaporte 2 years ago

beautiful, favorite
@violetamartins 3 years ago

so great!! :)
@oberfor7154 3 years ago

so aesthetic
@greatcanadianmoose3965 2 years ago

This is very cool, I've downloaded the github and am playing with the python scripts... is there any documentation on how the program works? I'm at that stage just above a novice programmer, where I know how to do most basic stuff, but haven't actually worked with a complex program before... This fascinates me to no end, so any help would be appreciated!