- On the outside it looks very similar to what Michael Levin found on electrical communication between living cells. There too, the organism's cells were able to structure and repair their larger-scale morphology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XheAMrS8Q1c
- Found it much interesting that i could mess up a pattern enough that it couldn't re-form.
Would be fun if selecting a new pattern didn't refresh the image as it is. Although maybe that's a requirement?
- Agree! This reminded me of a post that tweaked my brain a few months ago :)
https://open.substack.com/pub/defenderofthebasic/p/why-does-...
Also reminds me of Dr Michael Levin's work, which is living rent free in my brain lately
- Super cool work!!! Do you think it would be possible to do something like cell division here?
- If you look at the texture demo with the zeros, it looks a bit like lipid membranes merging/splitting as they stabilize more or less around a particular size.
- Thanks! Yeah I think it should be possible though it requires making the cell division/splitting a differentiable operation. But nontheless, this is indeed a very interesting and promising direction to pursue.
- This is super cool, great work. Is there a video or demo of the 3D point cloud "gaussian splat" like experiments?
- could something similar be used for texture synthesis ? of course the particles will need to be arranged in a grid and everything, or maybe recreate the texture by interpolating between the particles to exploit low contrast areas in the data
- From the original research - self-organizing textures: https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/
- thanks ! i feel stupid for only checking out the linked paper lol
- Can someone tell me why cellular automata are suddenly everywhere? I've seen ~10 articles regarding them in the last month.
- Possibly because SIGGRAPH is coming up and these were papers submitted to that conference.
- Because the space of people interested in such things is relatively small and so a single article has knock on effects where a reader of the article or a blogger sees it and starts exploring the space and posts more about it, increasing the exposure some more.
- This is the future of scientific publishing, pdf is so boring.
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