r/Simulated • u/IndustrialAnonymity • 4d ago

[OC] Artificial Life Research Simulation

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Just here to announce the official release of my new cellular automata simulation. Enjoy exploring the boundaries between death and chaos.

https://mangojimbo12.itch.io/artificial-life

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u/tiparium 4d ago

What'd you write it in? I have something somewhat similar to this I made in Unity.

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u/IndustrialAnonymity 3d ago

Majority is in a computer shader (HLSL) but obviously there’s some C# to tie the project together :)

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u/GoldieAndPato 3d ago

What are the rules for your cellular automata if you wanna share it?

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u/IndustrialAnonymity 2d ago

for each cell take the weighted average of the neighbours (based on the kernel) and pass that through the growth function which ranges from -1 to 1, then add that result onto the existing value.

drop me a dm if you want me to explain it more :)

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u/GoldieAndPato 2d ago

Cool, thats very interesting. Always cool how simple rules can create very interesting patterns.