Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL (znah.net)

145 points by znah a day ago

22 comments:

by gota 7 hours ago

My quick investigation indicates that rule 2183 with a zero flipProb and the "fancy tentacles" is the most consistently able to generate penis-like images

by gota 3 hours ago

Addendum: limit it to ~300 growthLimit to... manage expectations

And the preset doesn't matter - I thought it was a initial config that applies to any rule; it is a preset of the previous parameters instead

by reactordev 2 hours ago

500 growthLimit for others…

;)

by kentf 5 hours ago

This is beautiful. Have you looked at Stephen Wolfram's Physics project?

https://www.wolframphysics.org/

Reminds me of watching his idea of spacetime coming into existence.

by bkdbkd 25 minutes ago

Awesome. Well done.

by bkdbkd 19 minutes ago

really really awesome.

by chuckadams 8 hours ago

Pleasingly wiggly :)

8690 with a non-zero flip probability has a fun little effect I call "whoomph"

by gota 7 hours ago

8690 with a high flipProb, "stable explosion" preset, is like a fuse -

be patient and it 'explodes'.

Very fun!

(Edit: apparently the fuse can 'die off' but the thing still eventually explodes)

by felineflock an hour ago

Some of those look like thongs.

by londont 4 hours ago

Wow. Just stunning. Congrats!

by sanufar 6 hours ago

Haven’t heard of SwissGL before, but this render feels super performant. Nice work with the Barnes-Hut algo!

by sublinear 2 hours ago

This looks similar to the graphs on "2swap"[1]. Worth a watch if you haven't by now.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=YGLNyHd2w10

by __MatrixMan__ 7 hours ago

This is awesome.

I'd love to see it with more than one type of stem cell and also some kind of apoptosis.

by JKCalhoun 7 hours ago

Feels like building proteins, or some kind of RNA/DNA molecules.

by DesiLurker 6 hours ago

looks kinda like wolfarm physics project: ref: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-t...

by theknarf 6 hours ago

Now we can see it knitting space-time before our eyes

by kentf 5 hours ago

ha, great minds. Posted nearly the exact same thing, but you were first, so upvote for you.

by senfiaj 4 hours ago

I get black screen on chrome. Works only on firefox.

by n0um3n4 12 hours ago

mesmerizing...

by jezzamon 7 hours ago

Very cool! Feels very alive

by psawaya 5 hours ago

Amazing!

by analog8374 8 hours ago

Good scifi. Strong alien vibe. Reminds me of Dark City.

Tends to get spindley but maybe that's just my phone

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