Seven residents
Experiments
LifeLabs runs experiments in artificial life: each one is an ongoing investigation, not a showcase — with runs you can observe and something interactive you can pilot. Seven residents so far, each with its own way of making something emerge without ever writing it down directly. This is rigorous wonder: these pages document what was measured, not what we'd like to see.
Experiment 01
Lenia
Form emerges from math: one local convolution rule, repeated, is enough to produce mobile creatures that no one drew by hand.
View the experimentExperiment 02
Evolutionary agents
Behavior emerges from selection: a population of tiny brains learns to seek food, generation after generation, with not a single line of code describing it.
View the experimentExperiment 03
Bipedal avatar
A skill is learned through reward: a jointed body and an empty network learn on their own to stand and then to walk — not emergence strictly speaking, but learning.
View the experimentExperiment 04
Reaction-diffusion
A pattern emerges from chemistry: two substances diffusing and reacting locally are enough to paint spots or stripes that no one sketched.
View the experimentExperiment 05
Physarum
Thousands of memoryless agents weave a transport network.
View the experimentExperiment 06
Boids
Movement emerges from neighbours: three local rules and a single perception radius are enough to turn a cloud of random velocities into a flock that wheels and tightens like a single organism.
View the experimentExperiment 07
Sandpile: self-organized criticality
A sandpile that tunes itself to the edge of chaos: avalanches follow a power law, with no tuning at all.
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