plenia.jl
is a Particle Lenia implementation for Julia based on the work Particle Lenia and the energy-based formulation by Alexander Mordvintsev et al. (2022). The patterns and cell-like behavior shown in the video below are produced by an artificial "life" system that is called "Particle Lenia" -- based on the name Lenia Mathematical Lifeforms, which in itself is based on John Conway's Game of Life.
Particle Lenia's are systems of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) described by a collection of point particles
Despite its mathematical simplicity, the dynamics of such systems lead to interesting (stable) limit cycles, that are reminiscent to the behavior of microscopic organisms in water or single-cell organisms.
plenia.mp4
To run a Particle Lenia simulation, simply call:
julia main.jl