Researcher & Artist in New Zealand Creator of 'Multiple Neighborhood #CellularAutomata' aka #MNCA Exploring #ArtificialLife with #OpenSource and #OpenScience
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Ready with the poster for NORA 2023 Tromsø conference🚀 with @stenichele and Aarati.
@NORAdotAI
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I started this GPU implementation of interacting particles and it's already blowing my mind!
Have a look at the stuff I found!
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#madewithunity #indiedev #Simulation
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Back to my roots of playing around with NCAs again! I implemented some of @slackermanz MNCA ideas like using lumpy noise and having multiple neighborhoods/update rules but now for NCAs! Gives a lot more structure!
I will tidy up the notebook and release it soon!
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Some visual impressions to the next major upgrade of ALIEN (under development): Genetic editor, NN-controlled agents and a simplified messaging and energy transportation system between the cells will be coming ...and many other exciting things too!
#ArtificialLife #generativeart
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Pleased to share our new work: “Particle Lenia and the energy-based formulation” by @eyvindn @RandazzoEttore and me! google-research.github.io/se… (thread ⬇️ )
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This is a follow up on my Neural Net Controlled Cellular Automaton Engine. in the last thread I showcased the baseline and suggested some points for improvement:
xitter.gq/ereb0s_labs/status/156…
I followed up on these changes and they absolutely transformed the results.
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Given the recent popularity of #Dalle2 and #StableDiffusion, I thought it would be fun to write a thread about a different kind of generative art.
Each of the videos below is a randomly generated simulation and today I will explain about the project that created them.
A 🧵!
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Given the recent popularity of #Dalle2 and #StableDiffusion, I thought it would be fun to write a thread about a different kind of generative art.
Each of the videos below is a randomly generated simulation and today I will explain about the project that created them.
A 🧵!
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The first of our three @GeccoConf publications:
Evolving continuous cellular automata to yield stable motile patterns.
By lab member @RiveSunder.
arxiv.org/abs/2204.07541
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This self-organizing system is inherently robust to perturbations, enabling setting a large fraction of the cells’ states to zero and to recover almost perfectly by additional iterations of growth.
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Variational Neural Cellular Automata
They use neural cellular automata as the decoder for a VAE that can produce self-organizing samples with only local communication between pixels, allowing for things like robustness against damage during generation.
arxiv.org/abs/2201.12360
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How can geometric #DeepLearning help us tackle modeling challenges in molecular sciences? Check out our latest review "Geometric Deep Learning on Molecular Representations" arxiv.org/abs/2107.12375
@keennethy @ETH_en #MachineLearning #AI #chemtwitter #compchem
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#define M )/N*texture(b,.5+cos(PI2*(n/N+vec2(0.,.25)))/r*
vec2 p=FC.xy/r-.5;float N=3e1,n=1.;o+=1.+sign(4.-length(FC.xy-m*r));for(;n++<=N;)o.rgb
+=vec3(-3,-3.,0. M 20.+p).rgb
+vec3(2,4,1.3 M 5.+p/.99).rgb
+vec3(-3,-3,-5 M 10.+p).gbr;
//#つぶやきGLSL inspired by @slackermanz #MNCA
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I'm doing a mix of writing directly the numpy results to the Blender image cache and relying on external videos generated purely in Python during a sim parameters grid-search. Mesh is the displaced based on the sim state.
#b3d #mnca #geometrynodes
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Trying to get something where you can better see the CA dynamics on the chain. Rather than just doing a fade though, I might want to have old frames go to a secondary buffer which is held at some constant 1/2 alpha or something like that, so at the end you can see the whole thing
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Received the first paper for review on causal machine learning in applied problems. It's great that this area starts moving forward!
nature.com/articles/s41524-0…
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here's the latest version of my cytoskeleton-to-scale project (#cytoskaleton), optimized for the plant & microbial cytoskeleton GRC&GRS! grc.org/plant-and-microbial-…
Thanks to all the awesome scientists that contributed images!
🟢actin 🔵tubulin 🟣dna
