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LENIA

SARA PAVLOVIC

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WHAT IS LENIA?

  • Lenia is a system of continuous cellular automata, a form of artificial life.

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HOW?

  • The project started in 2015 by experimenting with Game of Life variations, which led to the discovery of continuous glider Orbium, and 400+ more species.

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  • These digital creatures show lifelike features like self-organization, self-repair, bilateral and radial symmetries, locomotive dynamics, and sometimes chaotic nature.

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WHEN?

  • In 2018, investigations on Lenia accumulated into a video and a paper, attracted some attention on the internet and academia.

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  • Once a coding exercise, Lenia has now evolved into an art and science research project, sparking international collaborations with universities and research labs.

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USE

  • In 2020, further extentions of Lenia led to more emergent phenomena, like interesting 3D/4D patterns, self-replication, pattern emission, self-boundary/individuality, aggregated patterns, polymorphism, intercommunicating colonies, etc.

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APPLICATION OF MATHEMATICS AND TIME

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LENIA’S PERSISTANCE OVER TIME

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QUESTIONS

  • Is there a limit on this digital universe?

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  • What kind of new pattern or emergent property will appear next?

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  • And what kind of questions or answers can we get from it?

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THANK YOU

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