3D Accretor Cellular Automata

[@saraha180]

This is cool, but IMO they all should last a few more seconds. I find it repeatedly cuts to the next while I'm still absorbing the structure of the current system.

[@noxabellus]

It seems like the more interesting the fractal the less time they gave, truly annoying

[@cliftut]

I agree. Sometimes I have a similar problem with some time-lapse videos. Sometimes they speed the action up too much so it's hard to really appreciate the details of what's going on.

[@ivandesiatov8842]

i think i may know the reaso behind this - these take a Lot of time to make, even if your PC is balls to the wall, these were probably left to compute overnight. The thing is, at some point you wanna use your PC for something else. So what i think is, the videos weren't cut short in the editing phase - they were short to begin with. Also the more visually complex structures maybe take longer to compute and render, but all the simulations were probably run for similar amounts of time.

[@MuzikBike]

there is a new video on these that addresses this problem.

[@stoppedsaucer1770]

Until you realize you can pause the video

[@TheSpyFishMan]

reminds me of crystal structures being deposited from solution.

[@breakypower3214]

at 3:15, the best one oO

[@euclideanplane]

3D version of rule 30?

[@BrianRisk]

Fully agree! Thank you for linking to it

[@БранимирНиколов-ж7ф]

This is some alien hightech shit. and the one right after it is a Sierpiński piramid because why the fuck not. i want this program. i need this

[@Wobbmin]

Isn’t that the screaming laser angel from Evangelion?

[@euclideanplane]

@@Wobbmin nice reference

[@dumnor]

I would really love seeing cellular automata in hex based lattices. 3d square lattice tends to get boring after a while

[@jdavi6241]

1:24 3d square lettuce

[@rebase]

That won’t work. In 2d you can have triangle, hexagon and square tiling, but there is only one non-degenerate regular tessellation of 3d space, the cubic honeycomb.

[@philipphoehn3883]

you could do hexagonal prisms

[@bencressman6110]

@@rebase I think rhombic dodecahedrons tile the plane and would be your closest analogue to hexagonal tessellation. I don't know what non-degenerate means, but I don't see any reason why it would need be regular. Maybe a bit more heavy lifting on the computation side of things, but it would still be pretty cool

[@Softology]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGrKqKZ5Zpysm5I

[@Richard-tr2yy]

this must have taken an eternity to render...

[@Softology]

Yes, it was at least a few days. But the awesome shading results the Mitsuba Renderer gives is worth the wait.

[@БранимирНиколов-ж7ф]

its beautiful ive looked at this for five hours now

[@calebtot]

I feel like this is tied directly into my life's calling.

[@Penguinz-fr1mu]

3:14 mind blowing!!!

[@exoqqen]

your passion is genuinly inspiring

[@drone_better7757]

Some of these remind me of 'ant highways' in Langton's Ant, a simple, two-dimensional cellular automaton where there's only one active cell, the ant, which moves forwards, then inverts the colour of the cell it's on (white or black - all start as white), then turns left or right based on the colour. It creates large patterns, and is even more fun with different rulestrings with more colours, but in most rulestrings it finds the conditions necessary to create a 'highway', which is a repeating pattern in the same direction, going on forever, looking like a giant spike coming out of a crazy mess.

[@Softology]

See the following for my previous 2D and 3D Langton Ants work softologyblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/ant-automata/

[@bluesun5429]

Like the ant in powdergame :)

[@drone_better7757]

@@bluesun5429 The Powder Toy, which I think you're referring to, has an implementation of Langton's Ant, as well as Conway's Game of Life.

[@GillAndBurtTheCop]

2:50 best one. This was incredibly awe inspiring

[@lanarcho-mathematicien9949]

3:26 sierpinski...?

[@gb-qk5eh]

It looks like Wolfram rule 126

[@lucavignati2958]

How can i re-create this?

[@anywallsocket]

Fractal patterns here must wither emerge or be resultant from self-symmetric rules, the later of which seems more likely, but I’m no expert.

[@kepka55]

3:26 Sierpinski triangle

[@perlindholm4129]

Wow. I got that old amiga demo feeling. Thank you.

[@supercomputerz]

i have no idea what i'm looking at but it's cool as hell

[@Wobbmin]

3:14 Isn’t that the screaming laser angel from Evangelion?

[@edwinlundmark]

Wow, so mesmerizing! And a phenomenal job on the rendering!

[@ArtComs]

Great, and the music is progressing well

[@AdamGenesisArt]

Thanks Softology. Great videos and I found the Visions of Chaos software conducive to making some newer art. From time to time I stop in to activate my third eye from viewing these cellular automata videos. [GxQ=U]. Please keep making more vids.

[@gloverelaxis]

extremely cool work here

[@Leopard_211]

the music makes me anxious

[@---iv5gj]

This needs more starting seeds in various configurations instead of just starting out from 1 single blob! We may yet see much more amazing stufff

[@legosam2067]

Self-building worlds

[@buzzlightyearpfp7641]

when its about to get interesting *cut*

[@MuzikBike]

dw there's a new video with longer shots.

[@almostlegendary8677]

that stuff is awesome

[@SklerozRu]

It's like 3D-slice moving through 4D models

[@RamiCrafy]

0:32 hmmm seems familiar

[@SoftDevPhilosophy]

... looks like you nailed it

[@SocksWithSandals]

Tough to pick a favourite

[@GillAndBurtTheCop]

Can you make a DnB playlist with extended-time versions of these vids going in the background? I loved the complexity of the white with blue stripes one before 0:54 , but they all were awesome and the music could be DnB music, but the sims are too short!

[@Softology]

See the blog post in the description for more info.

[@LeeGoGators]

Neat minecraft mod

[@muckyesyesindisguise3854]

What happens when mutj to vaisgra

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Nice - reminds me of Lindenmayer Systems

[@rubixube4239]

I sware i watched things rotating left for so long that at the end of the video everything seemed to move to the right xD

[@merlepatterson]

This is cool, but I'd also like to know the outcome if non-linear growth was programmed into the rules. For instance, grow 2 from 1, grow 3 from 2, grow 4 from 3 etc. Up to a point where subtraction is added to the rule over a sequence of rule repetitions; thus, reduce 1 from 2, reduce 2 from 3, reduce 3 from 4, etc. and then end that rule process over a number of rule repetitions, which brings the system continually into a re-balancing equilibrium but a homomorphic evolving state.

[@Rockyzach88]

Now the walls are moving.

[@deeplearningpartnership]

Amazing.

[@janmachelski2308]

Beautiful

[@fakestory1753]

3:59 best one :)

[@greengreen110]

unfortunately it cuts one second short

[@euclideanplane]

3:15 holy shit, 3D version of rule 30?

[@alexis-x3k8q]

3:16 what rule is this? I can't find the number at softologyblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/accretor-cellular-automata/ Edit: it would also be extremely appreciated if you put all the rules in the description.

[@Softology]

I include all the movie parts as preset sample files with Visions of Chaos.

[@alexis-x3k8q]

@@Softology I've downloaded Visions of Chaos, but can't find anything to do with the sample files. Where do I find them?

[@Softology]

Mode->Cellular Automata->3D->3D Accretor Cellular Automata. Then click the Open button and select Visions of Chaos example files.

[@alexis-x3k8q]

@@Softology Thank you.

[@derplstiltskinthedank8476]

1:15 OMG ITS THE MANNY HEFFLEY!!!!

[@bloomp7999]

yes they should last a few more seconds! nethertheless this is very satisfying to watch

[@MuzikBike]

there is a new video of this, just a fyi

[@kscrosson]

Is there a limited number of symmetry configurations in the results due to the seed being a cube?

[@celivalg]

doesn't it depend on the rules of the simulation rather than the initial cube? eg: if you have asymmetric rules you get asymmetric results but if you have symmetric rules you get symmetric results? for each cell you have 26 neighbors, thus 2²⁶ configurations you have to specify for each rule, and 2^(2²⁶) total rules, if you want something symmetric, you only have to specify 13 of the 26 neighbors, so 2^(2¹³) symmetric rules, the rest being asymmetric (well maybe some of those are exceptions... but that should be a good approximation) I dunno if that was what you were asking though... don't even know if my math is correct

[@davidmsf]

I think its very much orthogonal. There is a way to implement 3d celular automata without preferencial xyz axes orientations?

[@MuzikBike]

i've been wondering what pure 3d replicators would be like.

[@Softology]

If you have any specific rules in mind or want to experiment with 3D CA you can define custom rules in Visions of Chaos. softology.com.au/voc.htm

[@flosh2walkthrough672]

This is how I imagine the big bang

[@jr8209]

Now make them for VR headset and let users tweak parameters and scale them with hands and create collections oh boy. That'd be fun.

[@coleh.7768]

I’m the 1000th subscriber!!!

[@plag07]

Where can I get formula of 3:15 ? Thank you

[@Softology]

"Symmetric Crystal" sample included with Visions of Chaos.

[@dan0_0nad76]

Oh God, this is more than just beautiful, how do you program those 3d version of cellular automata?

[@Softology]

softologyblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/accretor-cellular-automata/

[@stoppedsaucer1770]

At the work of a higher being

[@jorriffhdhtrsegg]

They look more like crystal/mineral formation than life

[@batbox3765]

3:26 what rule is this?

[@Softology]

"Symmetric Fractal 01". It is included with Visions of Chaos as one of the sample files.

[@batbox3765]

thanks

[@user-ed7gm7ol8k]

3:19 whats her name?

[@Softology]

Included with Visions of Chaos as "Symmetric Crystal"

[@ConnoisseurOfExistence]

Nice!

[@silberlinie]

What rule numbers are they? Is rule 30 in there? I'm thinking about what it would be like to have a finished structure. And then you can go inside. And then you can move freely in 3-D. And look everywhere.

[@Softology]

Nothing to do with Rule 30. Rule 30 is a 1 dimensional much simpler CA. For more info on how this works see softologyblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/accretor-cellular-automata/

[@hadrien-ilyashaloui245]

If there are chaotic systems in this, there are naturally fractals, right ?

[@Softology]

The cellular automata itself has no randomness and is fully deterministic. The only randomness involved is the starting grid if you use random states. See my blog post linked in the description for more info.

[@AleksandrFilipov-q5y]

0:39 Corona virus

[@JavierSalcedoC]

Years looking for a new screensaver

[@mr1enrollment]

and no explanations - nothing? Is this just for use while smoking?

[@Softology]

Maybe you missed the first line of the description? softologyblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/accretor-cellular-automata/

[@mr1enrollment]

@@Softology no, I saw that, I just appreciate people talking about what they produce. It make it more interesting.

[@choasisgoated]

What software do you use

[@Softology]

Visions of Chaos

[@choasisgoated]

@@Softology Thanks!

[@scottcarothers837]

When you put in too much bubble bath

[@capta1nseal]

This but a minecraft mod and my spare time would be gone

[@hpw-dev]

Top of evangelion angels

[@xinwang600]

what software was used to show the change of the 3D structure ? in what post-process software?

[@Softology]

Created using Visions of Chaos softology.com.au/voc.htm No post processing. 100% from Visions of Chaos.

[@xinwang600]

i study cement hydration simulation using Cellular Automata. Your software is amazing. if my model could be shown in this way, that will be so cool.

[@Softology]

I recommend Mitsuba Renderer www.mitsuba-renderer.org/ to get the nicely shaded cubes like in this movie. Do you have any info on your CA model? I am always interested in new cellular automata models.

[@mitch4556]

How do you get such a good performance ? I tried to program it by myself but even if i use registers instead of normal variables i am limited to a 100x100x100 blocks world.

[@Softology]

The movie is not realtime. I render the frames with Mitsuba Renderer, save them as PNG files and then combine them with FFmpeg. Mitsuba gives the really nice ambient occlusion shadows and shading, but is not realtime. When rendering using software OpenGL I can get a few frames per second on a 100x100x100 grid.

[@bigearsinc.7201]

How do you make these camera angles with Visions of Chaos?

[@Softology]

Check the "Auto-zoom out" and "Auto-rotate" checkboxes on the Accretor settings dialog. They are both enabled by default.

[@bigearsinc.7201]

@@Softology Oh sweet thanks!

[@slamtronx5834]

Is it possible to export 3d objects from this software?

[@Softology]

Yes. As OBJ files.

[@stoppedsaucer1770]

I wanna see it make a burber

[@hariskawarizmi5748]

Can I have this codding?

[@Softology]

See here softologyblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/accretor-cellular-automata/ Not the full code, but should be enough to help you implement your own version? Ask me if anything does not make sense.

[@monstergdc]

It would be nice to play with such stuff interactivelly in some virtual reality setup... just an idea noted for my future self :) EDIT: Also some structures/formulas seem to have unusual stability! Is there any way to predict that behavior in advance?

[@yeahuh4128]

my graphic card: ADIOS

[@julianavar3836]

Ok, Idk if you guys saw, but there;s this guy who made a fractal marble game kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4aTiYmaq7aqd6s, I can see this stuff used for fps

[@edcm926]

Pro Minecraft builders in a nutshell

[@denmartorlanda]

3D Conway's game of life??

[@Softology]

More complex than game of life in 3D. softologyblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/accretor-cellular-automata/

[@hielum1337]

wow.

[@dark-5825]

This reminds me of 2b2t's spawn

[@stoppedsaucer1770]

Lol yes

[@derhunburhas]

Is it possible to output these structures to obj file?

[@Softology]

Yes, I give the option to export as an OBJ file. I just exported an Accretor OBJ file in Visions of Chaos and imported it without a problem in Blender.

[@derhunburhas]

@@Softology Okey thanks!👍

[@derhunburhas]

@@Softology I can't find the OBJ export option, where it is located?

[@derhunburhas]

okay found it, thanks

[@KrishanBhattacharya]

Is this the music from geometry dash?

[@chalcedonyclapper1216]

No

[@Softology]

No www.softology.com.au/music/music.htm

[@Adomas_B]

What are the rules?

[@Softology]

softologyblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/12/accretor-cellular-automata/

[@owlroseproductions8876]

One of the dislikes is KZbin's compression algorithm

[@Softology]

Yes, this one must be watched at highest 1080p resolution.

[@hligfl]

so they are always growing ?

[@Softology]

Yes

[@hligfl]

Do you have a simulation lasts muuuuch longer as much as it is possible ? But more like game of life and not only growing structures that stay how they are and only expands

[@Softology]

@@hligfl Not with these Accretor Cellular Automata. They do not have cyclic behavior like other CAs.

[@hligfl]

@@Softology too Bad :'(

[@stimfavid3797]

👍

[@ziggyzoggin]

god its like fractals

[@JesseSep.]

Dat covid boi 00:35

[@DogsRNice]

Neat

[@calebtot]

0:31 Oh my God, Rona is that you??

[@suhnih4076]

WOW;

[@igorjosue8957]

fractal maker

[@alexeygrom1834]

залипуха

[@JaredGalbraith]

Sapolsky sent me.

[@low_imagination]

So I actually understand what's happening and how it works. But I don't get what is this all for. WHY does this exist? What is the goal by creating these things? Is there a scientific need for this systems in any way?

[@natas74d7]

My eyes

[@BobJohnson1998]

conways game of life 3D

[@drone_better7757]

0:42 is Israel when it sees Palestine.

[@noobtube7344]

you're torturing youtube's compression

[@proveritate1205]

Big Bang? 1 process = 1 Planck time? 🤔

[@7616lydeth]

Wait, you made me thinking. Is the Big Bang, formation of stars and Galaxy and the law of physics, basically this universe we're living in, just one of the countless possible ruleset in this 3D cellular automata?

[@David_Box]

Wrong c code

[@carbunky6098]

?

[@rubberduck2078]

0:35 softology predicted coronavirus!

[@HaxxorElite]

wallpaper engine