chemlambda-gui

OK, here's a new one [0], an animation which circulated publicly of a dodecahedron which self-replicates twice. This is possible because a dodecahedron is a generalized Petersen graph [1]. Topologically is like a perturbed duble stranded, circular DNA, where you left one strand untouched, but you rewire the other strand. The image is available at [2] and it is used also in the (js) slides [3] [0] https://imgur.com/a/StCeSat [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_Petersen_graph [2] https://github.com/chorasimilarity/chemlambda-gui/blob/gh-pa... [3] https://chorasimilarity.github.io/chemlambda-gui/dynamic/cfp...

Or chemlambda https://github.com/chorasimilarity/chemlambda-gui/blob/gh-pa...

[1] is a trailer for a project in artificial life. The goal is to create a living artificial cell, based on the chemlambda artificial chemistry. Everything in the trailer is a recording of a real computation, done with the programs from the chemlambda repository. Everything was run on a regular laptop, then screencasted and trimmed. The programs are available for playing at the chemlambda github repository [2] where you can also find more info about the research behind this project. [1] https://vimeo.com/138476341 [2] github.com/chorasimilarity/chemlambda-gui/blob/gh-pages/dynamic/README.md You think is too far fetched? Then compare with this real recording from Li et. al., “Extended Resolution Structured Illumination Imaging of Endocytic and Cytoskeletal Dynamics,” Science: [3] https://vimeo.com/136537187

It's an artificial chemistry which is inspired, but can do other things as well, from untyped lambda beta calculus. There are two projects related to it, one in meatspace, other in virtual space. Project 1 says that if this chemlambda can be done by real chemistry then it may help to build or understand biochemistry. The article is http://chorasimilarity.github.io/chemlambda-gui/dynamic/mole... Molecular computers (2015). Project 2 is about decentralized computing, without any higher layer of control. Pretty, short animations with some explanations in the https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/UjgbX chemlambda collection. More meaty stuff in the http://chorasimilarity.github.io/chemlambda-gui/index.html . But you have to follow links to articles and read them :) Real stuff in the github repo, see https://github.com/chorasimilarity/chem