Trained a custom LoRA on 45,000 timesteps of my artificial life simulations (slime molds, flocking, driven by human brain organoid neural activity). Then ran the frames through FLUX and SDXL to see what they'd re-imagine.
1) Top row: raw simulation. Middle: SDXL LoRA. Bottom: FLUX LoRA.
2) FLUX frames overlaid on original symbolic video (7 seconds in).
Developing this pipeline for upcoming large-scale installations with Metaesthetica.
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We are pleased to announce that the upcoming exhibition IEEE VISAP includes our latest collaborative installation, "Simulacra Naturae." This piece explores the brain organoid activity that drives simulated ecosystems and generative forms.
This work will be featured in the IEEE VISAP "Collective Care" exhibition and will be installed alongside other exciting artwork installations at the atrium of the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (University of Applied Arts, Vienna).
We are also presenting a paper at the IEEE VISAP paper session on our Simulacra Naturae work.
Simulacra Naturae is a collaboration between the @mat_ucsb MAT transLAB led by professor Marcos Novak and the Kosik Neurobiology Lab led by professor Ken Kosik, with additional support from the Expressive Computation Lab (@expressivecomputationlab ) led by professor Jennifer Jacobs, and the MAT AlloPlex Studio/Lab at @sbcast .
Artists: Nefeli Manoudaki, Mert Toka, Iason Paterakis, Diarmid Flatley
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Growing and dissolving life-form.
Another result from the multi-agent physarum environment. I generated this one for a public announcement of @mat_ucsb 's upcoming exhibitions, syMADES, on May 27th and June 2nd 2022. Looking forward to celebrating awesome works of my friends.
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Growing Patterns in a Digital Petri Dish — stills on the right
Revisiting the scene that integrates physarum and boid agents in the same world. This one runs with ~10m physarum and 40k boid agents. I disabled the interaction between two agent types to keep the performance in real-time but they do react to a global noise field with five octaves.
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Texture and composition studies — I, II, III.
The background texture in the first one reminded me of @maxwellinked 's awesome line paintings. I wonder how these patterns would look if I add more symmetrical perspectives.
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Microscope I - II.
Other results with the technique from the last post. They make me wonder how to evolve more complex organisms in this fashion.
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Ocular Expansion. — swipe right for stills
An experimentation of creating layers using Physarum agents. There are still 4 agent types and a total of 30 million agents running in real-time, but this time 2 types are rendered as black. I am fond of the depth that this simple modification creates.
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Transfiguration II — swipe right for stills.
Another experiment for mixing physarum and boid agents in the same simulation. Since I am not strictly differentiating the types of agents in this version, boid agents also consider the physarum agents in the scene to determine where they are headed.
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Transfiguration — swipe right for stills.
A quick experiment for mixing physarum agents with boid agents in the same simulation. The current implementation is crude, but let's see what other fun patterns we can get from this procedure. Even though the previous post simulates 30 million physarum agents in real-time, this particular version only simulates 30000 due to the lack of spatial lookup tables for swarming. I finally have a reason to implement an efficient one to remedy this bottleneck.
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Re-visiting Physarum networks with multiple agents. Swipe right for more stills.
After a fantastic trip to Anacapa Island in California, I am inspired to explore these 2D simulations more. The ecosystem at the island reminded me of many of the sims on this account, and I think it would be curious to see them working hand in hand. In these stills, I am exploring constraining the growth of the network in a circular 'island' to force more interaction between the agents.
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Growth in a CA forest.
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Iterating on the stacked 2D cellular automata. I think this 6-state CA seed is exciting because of the pleasant interactions between the gliders (moving cells in 2D) and pillars (stationary cells in 2D). Upon collision events, the information is transformed into new structures — increasing the overall complexity as the CA evolve. In "A New Kind of Science", #Wolfram shows that this type of interaction between moving and stationary structures often produces a wide range of other structures. Due to removing certain states for display purposes, the totality of these structures is not immediately visible here. However, I still like the fact that pillars start and stop on these collisions.
I used variable hues during the layering to connect the vertical color progression of the rainforests and the evolution of these CA. It starts from earth colors and transitions into leaves and to the sky. Semantically and aesthetically, I enjoy seeing resemblances between tangible nature and abstract structures. In the video, there are 4 growth recordings organized by their densities.
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