Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL
150 points by znah 2 days ago | 23 comments

gota 8 hours ago
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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gota 4 hours ago
Addendum: limit it to ~300 growthLimit to... manage expectations

And the preset doesn't matter - I thought it was a initial config that applies to any rule; it is a preset of the previous parameters instead

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reactordev 3 hours ago
500 growthLimit for others…

;)

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kentf 6 hours ago
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.

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Xarovin 25 minutes ago
This somehow utterly destroys my 3070Ti when running on Firefox.

Fortunately works fine on other browsers - I was just a bit confused initially that there were so many positive comments for something that ran at 1fps.

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chuckadams 9 hours ago
Pleasingly wiggly :)

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

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gota 8 hours ago
8690 with a high flipProb, "stable explosion" preset, is like a fuse -

be patient and it 'explodes'.

Very fun!

(Edit: apparently the fuse can 'die off' but the thing still eventually explodes)

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bkdbkd 57 minutes ago
Awesome. Well done.
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bkdbkd 52 minutes ago
really really awesome.
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felineflock 2 hours ago
Some of those look like thongs.
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londont 5 hours ago
Wow. Just stunning. Congrats!
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sanufar 7 hours ago
Haven’t heard of SwissGL before, but this render feels super performant. Nice work with the Barnes-Hut algo!
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sublinear 3 hours ago
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

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__MatrixMan__ 8 hours ago
This is awesome.

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

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JKCalhoun 8 hours ago
Feels like building proteins, or some kind of RNA/DNA molecules.
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DesiLurker 7 hours ago
looks kinda like wolfarm physics project: ref: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-t...
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theknarf 7 hours ago
Now we can see it knitting space-time before our eyes
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kentf 6 hours ago
ha, great minds. Posted nearly the exact same thing, but you were first, so upvote for you.
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senfiaj 5 hours ago
I get black screen on chrome. Works only on firefox.
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n0um3n4 13 hours ago
mesmerizing...
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jezzamon 8 hours ago
Very cool! Feels very alive
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psawaya 6 hours ago
Amazing!
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analog8374 9 hours ago
Good scifi. Strong alien vibe. Reminds me of Dark City.

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

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cboyardee 13 hours ago
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