Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

144 points by znah a day ago on hackernews | 21 comments

n0um3n4 | 11 hours ago

mesmerizing...

analog8374 | 7 hours ago

Good scifi. Strong alien vibe. Reminds me of Dark City.

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

chuckadams | 7 hours ago

Pleasingly wiggly :)

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

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)

JKCalhoun | 7 hours ago

Feels like building proteins, or some kind of RNA/DNA molecules.

jezzamon | 6 hours ago

Very cool! Feels very alive
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
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

reactordev | 2 hours ago

500 growthLimit for others…

;)

__MatrixMan__ | 6 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.

DesiLurker | 6 hours ago

looks kinda like wolfarm physics project: ref: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-t...

theknarf | 5 hours ago

Now we can see it knitting space-time before our eyes

kentf | 4 hours ago

ha, great minds. Posted nearly the exact same thing, but you were first, so upvote for you.

sanufar | 5 hours ago

Haven’t heard of SwissGL before, but this render feels super performant. Nice work with the Barnes-Hut algo!

psawaya | 4 hours ago

Amazing!

kentf | 4 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.

londont | 3 hours ago

Wow. Just stunning. Congrats!

senfiaj | 3 hours ago

I get black screen on chrome. Works only on firefox.

sublinear | 2 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

felineflock | 52 minutes ago

Some of those look like thongs.
Awesome. Well done.