Lenia: Expanded Universe 1080p

How life-like can artificial life be? Lenia is a continuous cellular automata, a form of artificial life, that was evolved from Conway’s Game of Life. Previously we showed that Lenia can produce a large variety of self-organizing, highly symmetic patterns. Now we take Lenia to higher dimensions and multiply the system’s complexity. This opens up a whole new world of exploding diversity and new emergent phenomena, including: self-boundary, self-replication, internal division of labor, phenotypic polymorphism, and strange 3D/4D physiology. Sometimes it’s hard to tell we are looking under a microscope or at a computer simulation. Paper: Code: Music: Seminar talk: (coming soon) Previous video: Website: