yuca

Your Universal Cellular Automata

Left: Evolved slow glider from s11 Glaberish CA rule set. Right: evolved glider in Vagopteron Lenia rule set.

A continuous cellular automata research library -> https://github.com/rivesunder/yuca

“Simulated Universe Survival Guide.” Cross Roads Seminar Series #49 (2024)

(other relevant repos: fractal_persistence, index/links)

• Video: YouTube
• Slides: https://rivesunder.github.io/non_platonic_cross_roads/

Non-Platonic Autopoiesis of a Cellular Automaton Glider in Asymptotic Lenia (2024)

(main repo: fractal_persistence, index/links)

• Paper: https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00786
• ArXiV: 2407.21086
• Slides: https://rivesunder.github.io/fractal_persistence/al24_slide_000

The Eidolic Principle: Exploring the Fractal Simuliverse of (dis)Continuous Cellular Automata (2024)

An entry to the 2024 Virtual Creatures Competition at ALife 2024
(main repo https://github.com/rivesunder/fractal_persistence, index/links)

• Video (YouTube)
• Write-up (as appendix): ArXiV:2407:21086

Discretization-Dependent Dissolution of Gliders in (Dis)Continuous Systems: Non-Platonic Self-Organization in Complex Systems (2023)

• Paper at Innovations in Machine Intelligence doi:10.54854/imi2023.01 (pdf)
• Pre-print at Arxiv.org 2401.13111 (pdf)
• Code repository https://github.com/riveSunder/DiscoGliders/

Intention to explore the role of discretization in the emergence of self-organization in certain approximations of continuous cellular automata and dynamic systems (2022)

• Intention Outline (pdf) - arXiv:2208.09444
• Experiments outline script
• Animations
• Notebook Try it on: -> colab ->

Davis, Q, Tyrell and Bongard, Josh. Step Size is a Consequential Parameter in Continuous Cellular Automata. The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life. (2022).

• Paper -> https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00526
• ArXiv -> https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12728
• Repository
• Blog post
• Notebook Try it on: colab ->
• Talk at ALife 2022 (YouTube)
• ALife 2022 slides

Davis, Q, Tyrell and Bongard, Josh. Glaberish: Generalizing the Continuously-Valued Lenia Framework to Arbitrary Life-Like Cellular Automata. The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life. (2022).

• Paper -> https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00530
• ArXiv -> https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10463
• Repository
• Supporting animations
• Static figures notebook Try it on: colab ->
• Animations notebook Try it on: colab ->
• Talk at ALife 2022 (YouTube)
• ALife 2022 slides

Davis, Q, Tyrell and Bongard, Josh. Selecting Continuous Life-Like Cellular Automata for Halting Unpredictability: Evolving for Abiogenesis. Companion Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (2022).

• Paper -> https://doi.org/10.1145/3520304.3529037
• ArXiv -> https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07541
• Blog post
• Summary poster
• Notebook Try it on: colab ->

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