http://programmer.ie/tags/agent-based-models/ Recent content in Agent-Based Models on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/03-look-at-this-thing/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:30:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/digital-life/03-look-at-this-thing/ <p>Don&rsquo;t read anything yet.</p> <p>Watch this.</p> <figure><img src="http://programmer.ie/images/books/digital-life/ch01-lenia-organism.gif" alt="A localized continuous cellular automaton pattern evolving and moving through time."><figcaption> <p>One state of a continuous cellular automaton evolving through time.</p> </figcaption> </figure> <p>Something is moving.</p> <p>It appears to have a boundary. Different parts of it seem to behave differently: an edge that ripples, an interior that stays denser, a leading region that seems to pull the rest along. Its shape changes as it travels, and yet some larger organization survives those changes. Watch it for thirty seconds and you will start predicting what it is about to do.</p>