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. Paper: Code: Winner in Virtual Creatures Contest, GECCO 2018, Kyoto. Honorable Mention in ALife Art Award, ALIFE 2018, Tokyo. Full cast: 0:00 – 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) 1:14 – Circogeminium ventilans 環雙子虫(透) Quadrium vagus 方虫(遊) Kronium vagus 冠虫(遊) 1:37 – 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) less