Particle Lenia Deluxe Edition

UltraSane11mo ago· 2 in thread

I wonder what alife running on exaflop computers could find.

Yes, what is interesting with particle lenia is that the number of particles act as a sort of resolution of the energy fields they create. The more particle you can throw at it, the more fractal like details and complexity in the organisation pattern become visible.

UltraSane11mo ago

We need alife with access to a state space at least as large as biological life, which is pretty freaking big.

imiric11mo ago· 1 in thread

Mesmerizing visuals! I wasn't familiar with Lenia.

It mentions that the visualization can be seen at the bottom of the post, but I only see the video and image gallery. I have WebGPU enabled in Chromium.

CraftingLinksOP11mo ago

Yeah, sorry about that. It would just brick most people's phone. But there is a link to the git repo so you can run it in your browser locally.

lbeckman31411mo ago

Awesome port, playing around with the 3D example now!

Steps to run (in Chrome):

  git clone https://github.com/craftlinks/Notebook

  cd Notebook/particle-lenia

  node --version
  # v24.3.0

  npm i

  npm run dev

  # 2D Example: http://localhost:5173

  # 3D Example: http://localhost:5173/gpu_test

sitkack11mo ago

This is nice.

Slackermanz created the discrete version of what would later become Lenia, called MNCA (Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata).

https://slackermanz.com/

https://www.youtube.com/c/slackermanz

brianberns11mo ago

Particle Lenia is awesome. I did an online version that you can interact with here: https://brianberns.github.io/ParticleLenia/

CraftingLinksOP11mo ago

This port of Particle Lenia was achieved using compute shaders within Three.js and the (still unofficial) Three.js Shading Language (TSL).

Particle Lenia Deluxe Edition (opens in new tab)

Particle Lenia Deluxe Edition (opens in new tab)

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