Lenia: Expanded Universe 1080p
Channel: Bert Chan
Date: 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: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03742
Code: https://github.com/Chakazul/Lenia
Music: https://soundcloud.com/morusque/tissage-nautique
Seminar talk: (coming soon)
Previous video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE46jKYcI4Y
Website: https://chakazul.github.io/