A continuous space-time cellular automata by Bert Wang-Chak Chan.
Winner of Virtual Creatures Contest, GECCO 2018.
Online demo: https://chakazul.github.io/Lenia/JavaScript/Lenia
Code: https://github.com/Chakazul/Lenia
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05433
Figure from above paper showing visual similarity of real biological and artificial mathematical life forms:
Did you stoners check out PBS’ Journey to the Microcosms? I bet you’d like that 😀
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbnbBWJtwsf0jLGUwX5Q3g
Some of the texts are a bit cringy, but it’s incredibly interesting and the images are amazing.
fucking tardigrades