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Continuous Lenia

Conway's Life, but soft: kernels, growth curves and paintable organisms.

What is this?

A browser version of Lenia, the continuous cellular automaton family. Instead of cells being simply alive or dead, every pixel stores a concentration that can form gliders, blobs and unstable biological-looking structures.

How it works

Each step convolves the field with a ring-shaped kernel and feeds the result into a growth function. Radius, growth center, width and time step are adjustable, and you can seed the world by painting directly on the canvas.

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