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Conclusions
* The Lenia Continuous Cellular Automata Framework does not have easy implementations for Life-like CA that have distinct Birth and Survival rules.
* We can rescue the ability to easily implement these CA with a new variant of Lenia called glaberish; as a framework glaberish is about twice as complicated. Life-like CA easily implemented in glaberish but not in Lenia include Morley (B368/S245) and the optimal complexity CA, Dynamic Life (B356/S23) from (Peña and Sayama 2021) 1.
* The dynamics of glaberish CA I have worked with are different from Lenia, but I suspect this has more to do with the selection strategy used to evolve CA rules than the structure of the framework itself.
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Peña, Eric, and Hiroki Sayama. “Life Worth Mentioning: Complexity in Life-Like Cellular Automata.” Artificial Life 27.2 (2021): 105-112. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00348 ↩