If you haven't seen any of the generalizations of Conway's Game of Life, such as Smooth Life, there is a lot to see! This video is of a program called Lenia, written by a researcher named Bert Chan. Lenia is one of the most spectacular things I have seen, and I would absolutely recommend checking it out ( [ Ссылка ] ). Incidentally, Bert's Google Collaborate page, aptly titled "From Conway to Lenia", can fill you in on many of the important milestones since John Conway came up with his Game of Life in 1970 ( [ Ссылка ] ).
Interested to know more about this "species"? Curious as to what else Lenia can do? What are you still doing reading this description; check out those links! As a side note, while playing around with the (many) different options in one of the Lenia Python programs, I noticed that my tweaks caused this species to "dissolve" after a certain amount of time, hence the rather peculiar ending to the video. Before it dissolves, you can start to see its shape morphing, and I'm pretty sure this is due to the periodic boundary conditions and the reduced finite size of the environment. In any case, I hope you enjoy the video!
