Interactive web application for exploring emergent shapes and patterns with reaction-diffusion simulations by Karl Sims

His tutorial on reaction-diffusion is excellent:

Looking at that makes me think about life as a struggle with entropy. Asked ChatGPT "entropy from conception to death" and got this interesting answer. Life is a constant battle against entropy, relying on energy from external sources (e.g., food, sunlight) to sustain its ordered state until it eventually succumbs to the universal tendency toward disorder. Now I am depressed.

Openworm is a really fun numerical simulation app you can download for free and fully simulate a worm from the ground up.

Wow. This wild. Thanks!

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That's beautiful. Reminds me of that old Fractint program we used to play with in the computer labs at college.

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I've been pressing the limits of Grok with image creation. I need to look into this...

need a video explanation