Non-Platonism in ...

Original Lenia (Chan 2019)


    Non-Platonism with respect to temporal resolution for a Scutium gravidus glider in standard Lenia. download (mp4).


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    The Lenia growth function update is totalistic, depending only on the neighborhood values. The dynamics aren't entirely totalistic, however, as a memory of the previous state comes through in the state + update formula.


    Classic Lenia resembles the Euler method with one key difference: a truncating or squashing function constrains values between 0 and 1.