Lenia - Mathematical Life Forms

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.

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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)

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Circogeminium ventilans 環雙子虫(透)
Quadrium vagus 方虫(遊)
Kronium vagus 冠虫(遊)

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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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[PunmasterSTP]

This totally blew my mind! It feels really cool to know that ALife has progressed to this level.

[bobrokrol]

amazing. I have been searching for conway life variations and found this

[tomaszatko]

Incredibly beautiful. It blew my mind!

[gummikb]

You could argue it looks like life, but you could also argue it looks like galaxies forming and destroying eachother

[blinded]

To be honest, it more looks more like quantum particles, than living cells.
There's a ton of similarity actually.

[alvaroplol]

Downloaded the repo for this and played around with it for a while. I don't get it but it's beautiful!

[STONECOLDET]

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

[rickyspanish]

amazing! I also like the music, what is it?

[gregcte]

C'est comme si chacun des mes neurones venaient de se prendre une giga baffe.

[dawidmarcisz]

Does it work sort of like game of life or is it something more complex?

[fcampelofp]

Awesome! Congratulations on the beautiful work! Is the paper (or the source code) available?

[SoylentGamer]

A new era of artificial life has begun.

[igorkulieshov]

Bert, how do you update the world? Just using a small dt, or employing a more advanced integration strategy?

[puntedhat]

If 2 dimensional life exists it looks like this

[ClosiusBeg]

Amazing! Bert, have you tried to add some probability in Lenia? It could improve an evolution process. Because now some of species remain unchanged forever which is not as we see in in the real life. Of course it is a new form of live, but a bit boring. Or you could add some physical properties in the world, like gravity..

[RobertKreegier]

These aren't life, these are atoms and molecules existing in quantum fields.