Today : The Lenia Alife model and its derivatives

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PyCA tutorial on the website, youtube link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIIgRlBUXSs

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References :

Lenia papers : 1, 2

Excellent video (french) by Science Étonnante

About Lenia on Bert Chan’s website

Particle Lenia

Flow lenia

Lenia

Lenia is an Alife system, which can be thought of as a continuous generalization of the Game of Life.

It was invented by Bert Chan, and published around 2018, see original paper.

The typical dynamics look like this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT49wpyux-k

We have all the nice properties of self-organization, moving solitons emerging, interacting.