Oscillators and spaceships emerge from Conway’s simple rules. Click or drag to draw cells.
Rules of the game:
Inspired by Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival and Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life.
“Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological…”
Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life
Whole-image refinement and sequential strokes.
In Chiang’s story, humans experience life as a chain of causes and effects, while heptapods perceive an entire history through the constraints it satisfies. Could autoregressive and diffusion language generation offer an analogy for these causal and teleological viewpoints?
A flat surface focuses light, inspired by optical metasurfaces.
Glass curvature and nanofin orientations change together to bring light to the same focus.
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Newtonian gravity with adaptive symplectic integration, inspired by Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem.