Lenia Mathematical Life Forms

Lenia (from Latin lenis, smooth) is a cellular automaton, like Conways Game of Life, but with continuous states and continuous spacetime. It supports a great diversity of complex autonomous patterns or lifeforms bearing resemblance to realworld microscopic organisms. More than 400 species in 18 families have been identified, many discovered via interactive evolutionary computation. Paper: Code: Winner in Virtual Creatures Contest, GECCO 2018, Kyoto. Honorable Mention in ALife Art Award, ALIFE 2018, Tokyo. Full cast: 0:00 Gyrorbium 旋球虫 Orbium unicaudatus 球虫(單尾) 0:24 Scutium serratus vagus 盾虫(鋸遊) Pyroscutium 炎盾虫 Synptera cavus saliens 連翼虫(屈躍) Tridecapteryx 十, 19977