http://programmer.ie/tags/flow-lenia/ Recent content in Flow-Lenia on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:06:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/01-look-at-this-thing/ Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:06:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/01-look-at-this-thing/ <h1 id="digital-life-01-look-at-this-thing">Digital Life 01: Look at This Thing</h1> <p>Don&rsquo;t read anything yet.</p> <p>Watch this.</p> <!-- TODO VISUAL: Full-width animated Lenia or Flow-Lenia organism. Prefer: - localized organism - visible locomotion or deformation - no explanatory labels - dark/neutral background - several seconds of uninterrupted motion Caption should initially be minimal: "One state of a continuous cellular automaton evolving through time." --> <p>Something is moving.</p> <p>It appears to have a boundary.</p> <p>Different parts of it seem to behave differently.</p> http://programmer.ie/post/cellular-automata-from-first-principles-35/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:06:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/cellular-automata-from-first-principles-35/ <h1 id="cellular-automata-from-first-principles-35-flow-lenia-and-mass-conserving-artificial-life">Cellular Automata From First Principles 35: Flow-Lenia and Mass-Conserving Artificial Life</h1> <p>Ordinary Lenia updates local state by adding growth:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>A(t + dt) = clip(A(t) + dt × G(U)) </span></span></code></pre></div><p>That means state can be created in one region and destroyed in another.</p> <p>For many artificial-life experiments that is perfectly acceptable.</p> <p>But it leaves a major question:</p> <blockquote> <p>What changes if local structure must reorganize <strong>existing mass</strong> instead of creating or deleting it?</p>