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Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

140 pointsby znahyesterday at 1:18 PM20 commentsview on HN

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gotatoday at 4:02 PM

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

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felineflocktoday at 9:46 PM

Some of those look like thongs.

kentftoday at 6:14 PM

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.

chuckadamstoday at 3:16 PM

Pleasingly wiggly :)

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

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sublineartoday at 8:26 PM

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

senfiajtoday at 7:16 PM

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

sanufartoday at 5:00 PM

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

__MatrixMan__today at 4:13 PM

This is awesome.

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

londonttoday at 7:11 PM

Wow. Just stunning. Congrats!

JKCalhountoday at 3:31 PM

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

DesiLurkertoday at 4:30 PM

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

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n0um3n4today at 11:21 AM

mesmerizing...

jezzamontoday at 3:40 PM

Very cool! Feels very alive

psawayatoday at 5:41 PM

Amazing!

analog8374today at 3:13 PM

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

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

cboyardeetoday at 10:30 AM

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