Simulating Particle Life

[Lacheln-YO]

This shows that you don't need overly complex things to make something beautiful (and amusing to my single celled brain)

[mr.dragon.purple]

Can you pls make a site where you can play with these things, and if you do, put it in the description and reply to this comment, telling you created it? I WANT TO PLAY WITH THESE THINGS SO BAD

[DankePrime]

I love life simulations so much, dude. There were actual food chains, and a few of the simulations literally had multi-celled stuff. This kind of stuff is awesome.

[informalchipmunk]

At some point, one of these structures will randomly be extremely stable and self replicating. (Maybe something with its outer wall which allows it to gather more of its kind).

That would make the chaos go extinct....

[Q-werty]

10:47 I love these guys. They look like they have umbrellas

[BoneEaters]

Saw the title and the thumbnail and the channel and I knew I was gonna see something good

[MrBrineplays_]

Now I wanna see this with the atomic scale now. Protons, neutrons, electrons, or the quarks making them up, then watch them as they show the different properties of gravity, electromagnetic properties, charges, changes in state of matter (solid to liquid, liquid to gas, gas to liquid, liquid to solid, etc.), radioactivity, tranparecy, conductivity, malleability, and more. Imagine how big of a simulation you need just for those things that are surprisingly 99% empty

[leniterfortis]

Some of those looked completely alive. Very interesting.

[funnifunnifunni]

1:58 first eukaryotic cell
3:44 cell walls form
4:08 complex life (and separate species)
5:26 many species (and racism)
5:34 mitosis
6:07 genuses start forming (similar species)
8:51 defense mechanisms arise (the blue "prey" cells start deflecting the red "predator" cells)
10:37 multicellular life emerges
11:14 cell nuclei form
12:52 filter feeders emerge
14:16 dna-like structure emerge

edit: how did this get over 15 likes in under a day

edit 2: some guy made a reply criticizing this so heres a disclaimer: i am not a scientist i made this comment for fun do not take any of this as something accurately explaining this

still dont have to be so salty about it tho


also the like count has gone up times ten when i last edited

[demon_xd_]

Many of these structures appear pretty stable, I think if this simulation had a way of making new particles out of existing ones, self-replication could be achieved

[atismoke]

really makes you think about sentience
like, at what point do you go from mass to life? to brains? to concience?
Edit: this discussion that has started in the replies is civil??? never seen this before.

[bencressman]

These kinds of simulations always spark so many ideas! What if you introduced gravity, each particle being attracted to a point at the centre inversely proportional to distance. What if you introduced energy, which affected the max speed of the particles? What if you grouped the particles in the beginning rather than randomly dispersed them? What if what if what if. This was beautiful. Thanks for putting it together

[robbiealderton]

One of the coolest videos I have ever seen highlighting emergent properties

[MunkisManimal]

If you think about it, pretty much everything in the universe is a bunch a particles following strict rules, so this is perfect.

[Gabriel-setj]

As conway's game of life you can never really seem to be able to estimate how many generations this simulation will have or if it will be stable, if a cell will grow indefinetly, etc. Super duper cool particle chaos.

[VictorTirreau]

Appreciate your attention to details! The foley sound effects add depth and professionalism to the video, loved it overall!

[Otakutaru]

youtube's compression algorithm hates this man

[len]

You could, if more than 20 particles are clumped together. Change their value so that the different colors form “covalent bonds” with other particles of that color within the clump (which would just be like some string like code so they can’t wander off)
Then you get molecules and it can get a little more complicated. You could also have some structures which you know are useful like bonds which two poles be forms that can form easily. If you know it can form in real life due to reactions it should be allowed to make it form in the simulation. Life could get more complex that way

[fadingstarmc]

love the animations and the background music in this one! another amazing upload

[georgesas]

What I find fascinating is how consistent the process is. For the same set or rules you always get similar "creatures", which shows that although there is randomness in it, as a whole it is perfectly deterministic at a higher, macroscopical level.