Lenia - Mathematical Life Forms

Bert Chan
Bert Chan
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Published 2018-06-27
Lenia (from Latin lenis, “smooth”) is a cellular automaton, like Conway’s Game of Life, but with continuous states and continuous space-time. It supports a great diversity of complex autonomous patterns or "lifeforms" bearing resemblance to real-world microscopic organisms. More than 400 species in 18 families have been identified, many discovered via interactive evolutionary computation.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1812.05433
Code: github.com/Chakazul/Lenia

Winner in Virtual Creatures Contest, GECCO 2018, Kyoto. virtualcreatures.github.io/
Honorable Mention in ALife Art Award, ALIFE 2018, Tokyo. artaward2018.alifelab.org/

Full cast:
0:00 –
Gyrorbium 旋球虫
Orbium unicaudatus 球虫(單尾)

0:24 –
Scutium serratus vagus 盾虫(鋸遊)
Pyroscutium 炎盾虫
Synptera cavus saliens 連翼虫(屈躍)
Tridecapteryx 十三翼虫
Tetracosapteryx 二十四翼虫

0:36 –
Catenopteryx cyclon 鏈翼虫(環)
Catenopteryx serratus cinguli 鏈翼虫(鋸帶)
Scutium serratus fluens 盾虫(鋸流)

0:46 –
Catenohelicium monospirae 鏈卷虫(單螺)
Helicium serratus turbulentus 卷虫(鋸湍)
Gyropteron serratus turbulentus 旋翼虫(鋸湍)
Helicium cavus pedes 卷虫(屈步)

0:55 –
Argentokronium 銀冠虫
Aurokronium 金冠虫
Florakronium 花冠虫

1:01 –
Aerogeminium volitans 空雙子虫(飛)
Gyrogeminium velox 旋雙子虫(速)
Hydrogeminium natans 水雙子虫(泳)

1:14 –
Circogeminium ventilans 環雙子虫(透)
Quadrium vagus 方虫(遊)
Kronium vagus 冠虫(遊)

1:37 –
Hexadentium rotans 六齒虫(轉)
Decadentium rotans bioculi 十齒虫(轉雙眼)
Dodecadentium rotans 十二齒虫(轉)
Hexafolium incarceratus 六瓣虫(囚)
Dodecafolium ventilans 十二瓣虫(透)

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All Comments (21)
  • @bobrokrol
    amazing. I have been searching for conway life variations and found this
  • @PunmasterSTP
    This totally blew my mind! It feels really cool to know that ALife has progressed to this level.
  • @gummikb4251
    You could argue it looks like life, but you could also argue it looks like galaxies forming and destroying eachother
  • @alvaroplol
    Downloaded the repo for this and played around with it for a while. I don't get it but it's beautiful!
  • @STONECOLDET944
    If prompt a specifically designed AI. Model to as near as possible describe the lattice QCD of a proton and in the process its wave function in terms of a particle life manifold, you can obtain the particle life like manifold rule set , and in the process derive an functional way to describe a unified field theory
  • @blinded6502
    To be honest, it more looks more like quantum particles, than living cells. There's a ton of similarity actually.