Neural cellular automata (NCA)

[jasonwebb]

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I've been seeing more projects exploring neural networks to create rules for CA, so I think they are worth documenting now. Personally I'd like to focus on how NCA can be used in mindful and systematic ways to deepen our understanding of the phenomena they are modelling. As opposed to using it as a shortcut to achieve complex results that look cool but the creator doesn't actually understand.

I'm especially interested in how NCA can be used to produce new forms and patterns, not just trained to reproduce existing ones.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPlAEnGX4Dg
• https://wandb.ai/johnowhitaker/nca/reports/Fun-With-Neural-Cellular-Automata--VmlldzoyMDQ5Mjg0
• https://greydanus.github.io/2022/05/24/studying-growth/