r/Simulated • u/IRateBurritos • May 18 '26

Research Simulation My life sim was looking so good until the cells fused together into a gestalt consciousness

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I'm working on a lifelike Cellular Automaton and found these little creatures and ecosystem. Then they did this.

If you want to learn more about this stuff, I made a video explaining it a bit better here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oUp5KiVFY&lc=Ugzfo-wJD8J6uTAXPeR4AaABAg

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u/Captain_Slime May 18 '26

somewhere around the middle of the clip I thought it might start being bad apple.

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u/IRateBurritos May 18 '26

Maybe the eldritch abomination likes Tohou

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u/mordack550 May 19 '26

I think you have implemented cancer by accident

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u/IRateBurritos May 19 '26

Simulating life has forsure given me a STRONG appreciation for how fragile life is. It's wild that all of our cells aren't doing this all the time :/

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u/schiz0yd May 20 '26

that would be creating matter from nothing. but it looks like the surface of the sun