Parallelizing Cellular Automata with WebGPU Compute Shaders(vectrx.substack.com)

65 pointsby ibobev9 miesięcy temu7 comments

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Parallelizing Cellular Automata with WebGPU Compute Shaders

https://vectrx.substack.com/p/webgpu-cellular-automata

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danwills9 miesięcy temu

I've been interested in continuous automata for a good while! I usually call it "Reaction Diffusion" (good old Turing!) but a lot of people hearing that might think I might just mean "Gray Scott", but I actually mean the whole realm of solving various types of equations (in feedback of course) on continuous-valued fields. My software of choice for that is gollygang/Ready (where some of my experiments are available to play with in the release) and also Houdini, to use the resulting simulation data in whatever way one creatively desires!

Here's one from my channel:

https://youtu.be/W6sO8ZkgU9s?si=x-_e3j4IFX0qtekL

Edit:Typo

MomsAVoxell9 miesięcy temu

A friend of mine has done something similar, albeit he turned it into quite an engine for creating CA universes:

https://wizard23.github.io/evocell/cellspace.html

"All rule lookups and most of the collission detections are calculated on the GPU."

Every time I swing by Evocell to have a look, I am impressed with the performance he has managed to gain ..

jekude9 miesięcy temu

I have been asking myself for a while: Why has Artificial Life not had its AlexNet moment with GPUs yet?

lawlessone9 miesięcy temu

a lot harder to turn into a product i think? I've seen people use it to generate music but it wasn't great. And the odd study using it for X or Y.

But it's mostly always seemed like a software toy

brimtown9 miesięcy temu

Had hoped to see Neural Cellular Automata [1] mentioned as an extension of continuous, learnable automata.

[1] https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/

antonkar9 miesięcy temu

Can be useful for the binary tree “quantum ethics”: https://x.com/maskedmelonusk/status/1966653895398088872

calibas9 miesięcy temu

Is something wrong with Substack's CSS, or is that abomination of a scrollbar intentional? It's not just this site either, I see the same thing on Substack's homepage as well.

tensorlibb9 miesięcy temu