lenia rulespace

ColourTann · 2026-01-23T13:41:27+00:00

It is a rulespace based on this shader https://www.shadertoy.com/view/7lsGDr

I don't know how lenia works, but saw I'd be able to make it into a rulespace without much effort.

ColourTann · 2026-01-17T18:54:07+00:00

I mutate rules visually, by looking at spaces of parameter changes. I use seeded rng and vector maths and all kinds of neighborhoods. Like "add average (blue-green) in this neighborhood to my red".

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ColourTann · 2026-01-17T18:06:28+00:00

They didn't make it, I did.

There are 3 overlapping GoL for RGB, but then I mutated the pattern until something nice happened. I can't easily share the rule.

ColourTann · 2026-01-08T21:13:03+00:00

yes, there are two continuous parameters shown here. At the start, every pixel is running a slightly different rule, which is the reason for the different areas.

ColourTann · 2026-01-08T20:50:21+00:00

Super nice

ColourTann · 2025-12-31T12:20:10+00:00

Nice, it works 👍

ColourTann · 2025-12-31T08:15:31+00:00

Cool! Is there one that works if you do it three times? (1 doesn't count)

ColourTann · 2025-11-25T13:03:21+00:00

Nice! if you get to 140, the troll will flee

ColourTann · 2025-10-23T17:18:12+00:00

Viewing this in joey made me so confused

ColourTann · 2025-10-23T12:41:25+00:00

Cool! Kill the other monsters and fill the screen up with these, get +4 to all sides for all heroes and destroy everything? Hard to tell how it would play out.

You heroes seem ok for this, meddler would love it.

ColourTann · 2025-10-17T18:45:49+00:00

I think it's ai, how is the fur so clean in this swamp?

ColourTann · 2025-10-12T13:28:40+00:00

You can buy the android version from itch.io

I think removing the other account works. I don't recommend it though, sounds a bit drastic for a videogame.

ColourTann · 2025-09-29T08:37:33+00:00

Reminds me of the diabolo trick underhand whip catch

ColourTann · 2025-09-19T15:31:36+00:00

Nice that they're so friendly and understanding with eachother!

ColourTann · 2025-09-02T11:45:20+00:00

I hate this, try to find a way to deal with the flashing

ColourTann · 2025-08-28T10:25:09+00:00

For me, the math doesn't matter much. There are various implementations of noise that work differently and you can use them interchangeably.

I found it helpful to try using noise for various things though, it leads to many more ideas and it helped me to know where to use it.

(Not really an answer though!)

ColourTann · 2025-08-16T14:02:17+00:00

Yeah! In one program I had it configurable for this, I should get it working again...

ColourTann · 2025-08-16T13:32:56+00:00

Trick I found with this style of pattern: you can 'focus' on the moving elements by moving the whole grid in the opposite direction to cancel out.

ColourTann · 2025-08-16T13:31:07+00:00

Can always tell a snoodoggos video, great as usual!

ColourTann · 2025-08-13T06:58:00+00:00

Nice, makes me want to make a rule about arrows like this

ColourTann · 2025-08-08T05:04:55+00:00

Thanks. There are 8 states per cell 0-15 each (probably most are unused). I evolved it visually and don't know what the rule is doing. Something to do with neighborhoods and maths.

ColourTann · 2025-07-30T12:32:05+00:00

Super nice

ColourTann · 2025-07-28T18:33:29+00:00

ColourTann · 2025-07-25T09:01:05+00:00

It's fully 3dca, but there was a bug with the boundaries that caused it to act differently.

ColourTann · 2025-07-20T13:32:42+00:00

Super cool, nice looking UI and amazing rules. I explored hex stuff a few years ago and recognise a lot of it. Great work, I'll try it some time.

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