@timhutton Hey Tim! I built a 2026 fork of your Squirm3 that keeps the chemistry rules unchanged but modernizes the substrate: WebGPU rendering, 5000×3000 arena, water as continuum heterogeneous-Brownian regions, seedable RNG, save/load.

In a single seeded run I observed a closed a-a-a membrane loop spontaneously form around a cluster of intact protocells, then accumulate more cells over time:

1. iter 117,632 - outer loop, 1 inner protocell
2. iter 140,920 - 69-atom outer loop, 2 inner protocells
3. iter 157,068 - 78-atom outer loop, 4 inner protocells

Verified from the bond graph, not just visually, I also made an analysis script in the repo that walks the graph and runs point-in-polygon containment. The outer ring is ~3x the size of a typical single-cell membrane in the same run.

Your polymerization rule is scale-agnostic, so this is consistent with your chemistry, but I don't think meta-membrane formation appears in your 2002 or 2007 papers. Did you ever observe it in your own runs?

Three save files + the script are in the repo so it's reproducible. Load any save in the demo and you boot directly into that state.

Demo: https://davidortsac.github.io/primordium/

Saves + script: https://github.com/DavidOrtsac/primordium/tree/main/samples

Repo: https://github.com/DavidOrtsac/primordium

Big fan of your work!

#CellularAutomata #ArtificialLife #ALife #ReactionDiffusion #ArtificialChemistry

Wie klingts eigentlich, wenn man alle zugleich reinhaut (Vierknopftypus per Fernbedienung)

Die interaktive Arbeit greift das Motiv von Kreuzigung und Wiederbelebung auf. Eine nachrüstbare Zentralverriegelung, jahrelang auf dem Dachboden des Künstlers gelagert, wird auf das Kreuz genommen: Über eine Fernbedienung können alle vier Knöpfe gleichzeitig ausgelöst werden.

Der Moment zwischen Stillstand und Aktivierung, zwischen Exitus und technischem Erwachen hat eine literarische Parallele zum Ausstellungsort Ingolstadt, damals eine katholische Glaubensfestung: In Mary Shelleys Roman Frankenstein bringt der Student Victor Frankenstein während seiner Zeit an der Universität Ingolstadt mit Hilfe von Elektrizität eine Kreatur zum Leben.

Zwischen Kreuzigung und künstlicher Belebung verhandelt die Arbeit Fragen von Handlungsmacht, Kontrolle und der Aktualisierung sakraler Motive durch Technologie.

Die Arbeit war Teil der Ausstellung Endrohr Apokalypse im Kunstverein Ingolstadt (22. Nov 2025 – 21. Jan 2026).

#EndrohrApokalypse #Olsen #KunstvereinIngolstadt #InstallationArt #Frankenstein #ArtificialLife #TechAndFaith #ContemporaryArt #InteractiveArt #TechnologyAndTheology #modernPrometheus

Neat

#artificiallife #geneticlife #algorithmiclife #emacs

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#artificiallife #geneticlife #algorithmiclife

Artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life

https://github.com/Rabrg/artificial-life

#HackerNews #ArtificialLife #ComputationalLife #CodeInnovation #GitHub #ProjectShowcase

returning to Barricelli's Numerical Testing of Evolution Theories(1961) after not managing to continue it last semester.

just added a raster spacetime view next to the scrolling text view in SuperCollider, still in the phase of building ways to observe it, thought it feels slightly more legible now...

#SuperCollider #GenerativeArt #ArtificialLife

THE ELECTRIC SHEEP LIVE

https://infinidream.ai/

#GenerativeArt #art #ArtificialLife #GeneticAlgorithms