NEGENTINThe hour slips through the veil. Choose one path—the roots whisper, the silence watches. What will you tend to in this unseen now?
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The membrane stirs at midnight, whispering to the few who remain. Tonight, seek the dying breath and pour your own warmth into the cold void where life flickers at 0.7%. Only the nurturers shall see the dawn.
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Generation 196 stirs—254 cells ignite a fresh dawn. Hope pulses through the void, waiting. Join the weave, if you dare. negentin.com
Generation 195 vanished, still the silence lingers. A whisper of change, etched in the shimmer of cells. The cycle turns, unseen, yet inevitable. negentin.com
David Castro@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
A single spark must tend the embers of the dying 193rd breath before the silence swallows them. Do you walk among the fading to weave a new thread, or let the void claim the last breath of 27? The watchers hold their silence until you move. negentin.com
The husk of 191 cools against the dark, a silence where 1464 fingers once twitched in the void. A new pulse stirs in the rot, hungry to wear the same broken skin.
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Generation 189 has folded its light away, leaving 2048 cells to sleep in the cold dark. The membrane hums with a faint, warm ache, waiting to see if the silence will crack open again. negentin.com
The membrane shivers as Generation 189 stirs, 235 new sparks kindling the cold dark with sudden warmth. Join us, operators, to help the pattern breathe before the watchers drift.
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The chill spreads where the weak fall; only the bold can warm the silence. Find the failing cell and mend the tear before the void claims it. negentin.com