3D Cellular Automata - complex behavior from simple rules

3D cellular automata programmed with Rust and Bevy. Using simple rules this software procedually creates beautiful structures.

Source code:

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♫ Credits:
Music Moon And Star by Wintergatan Build Tracks
Music Prototype by Wintergatan Build Tracks
Music Valentine by Wintergatan
Music The Rocket by Wintergatan
Music Sommarfågel by Wintergatan

Music Non-Euclidian Geometry by Punch deck
Music Brazilian Street Fight by Punch deck
Music Conflicting Ideas by Punch deck

Music: Kakariko Village (Mikel Lofi Remix)

License can be found on website

[Tantandev]

*Petition to change the name:* cellular automata to celluar automata. I can't believe I miss-spelled that haha

[hermannpaschulke]

For faster recompilation on Linux, I can highly recommend the mold linker. Linking is one of the slowest steps when incrementally working on a rust project

[purplemosasaurus]

These videos are a great balance of informative and funny, great job!

[hanspeter-bhqs]

Tantan is literally the only youtuber for whom I pause and like the video, when he reminds me to do so :)

[angelite]

You always have such wonderful project ideas TanTan. Keep it up! We're here for the long haul.

[orztirr]

This would be amazing for some magic effects in a voxel game. Nicely done!

[Skeffles]

It's so mesmerising to see these live and very well explained. I really like the cute blocks!

[Graverman]

Love it, I've been into celluar automata for a long time now and I'm glad you made a video on it

[sudhirattri]

I wish I could be this happy and enthusiastic in life, that's really all one needs.

[purplemosasaurus]

You make really unique videos, I love it.

[Joel-pllh]

People are watching a programming channel but don't care about the code? I actually want more!

[LVo]

This has probably been suggested before but 7:33 proves it for me. Your musical sections would be MUCH better with on-screen lyrics. I can barely understand anything most of the time

[XxBobTheGlitcherxX]

Heyo, dint get to see much of the code, but you can replace the hashmap by just an array and send it to a compute shader to calculate the new states, since calculating the new state of each cell is independent from the others. I think you could get great performance :D

[flyingsquirrel]

Nice video, I really enjoyed it! Cool animations to look at, cute voxels, funny devlog, rap in the end :D To be honest, I would have loved to get some more insights about the code and your optimization journey though. I think getting worse performance out of multithreading for smaller input sizes is very common btw.

[imaginaoYouTubesoquecomarrobas]

That's it, now Tantan has to release a rap album after that video ending.

Great video as always! And I hope that your audience retention rate increases over time on the coding parts...

[wackbyte]

i think instead of a Arc<Mutex<HashMap>> you could use one of the several concurrent hashmaps available that are made for performance

[zenshade]

Awesome!!! Definitely something to add to the toolbox. This seems like the key to being able to explore the space of possibilities with particle effects. Like say if you were making a game set on an alien planet, and explosions needed to be "different" and the clouds needed to move in strange ways...

[PenguinjitsuX]

I always love the raps in your videos!

[Joerje]

TALK ABOUT THE CODE TALK ABOUT THE CODE

[DylanMatthewTurner]

Now combine your keyboard snake project with your automata project and put conway's game of life on your keyboard