What is Lenia?
- Lenia portal - information about Lenia, e.g. videos, papers, source code, online demos.
Community
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Discord 🔥 - Chat about Artificial Life, especially Lenia and MNCA.
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Twitter - Tweets about Lenia, ALife, or anything interesting.
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Reddit - Progess update on Lenia (just started).
“From Conway to Lenia” tutorial
Full version (95MB, with results)
- If failed to open in your browser, open the below clean version.
Clean version (without results)
- Click Runtime menu > Run all to run the notebook and see the results.
Tutorial @ ALIFE 2021
5 grand challenges in the study of Lenia:
- Automated discovery - How to discover Lenia creatures through automated algorithms?
- Emergent agency - Can we train Lenia creatures as emergent agents using machine learning?
- Swarm cognition - Can higher-level cognition emerge in swarms of Lenia creatures?
- Open-endedness - Can we achieve open-ended evolution with Lenia?
- Turing completeness - Is Lenia able to perform universal computation like a computer?