Simulating Particle Life
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ค. 2024
- Particle Life is a fascinating simulation model that showcases emergent behavior arising from simple rules. Inspired by Jeffrey Ventrella's "Clusters" ( ventrella.com/Clusters ). This simulation resembles real-life organisms, demonstrating that emergent behavior doesn’t require complex processes.
This shows that you don't need overly complex things to make something beautiful (and amusing to my single celled brain)
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Can you pls make a site where you can play with these things, and if you do, put it in the description and reply to this comment, telling you created it? I WANT TO PLAY WITH THESE THINGS SO BAD
from the looks of it, it would take a lot of computing power to run, so it's not likely many people would get as much use from it as he did
@@BoredYoshi it runs on the GPU so not really
@@h1lw true
I AGREE BRO
He can make a smaller version
At some point, one of these structures will randomly be extremely stable and self replicating. (Maybe something with its outer wall which allows it to gather more of its kind).
That would make the chaos go extinct....
at most of the videos I can see some 'cells' as I would like to call it, eat other particles or cells and it become too big to it splits into 2 cells...
Kinda like how cells division work but without the chromosomes bullshits lol
The problem with this is that it is _too_ easy for multiple of the same structure to form from nothing, meaning that there is very little material left for any of them to make clones out of without first cannibalising something ( since they all use unique particles )
Unfortunately he didn't add any sort of particle creation system that the particles can access.
Yeah i feel like i could see that in a more complex environment the material in the outer layer of the “cell” could be attracted to the center layer with a middle layer seperating it, so that if the availability of the materials is right it could form a stable loop of getting big then collapsing in on itself in such a way that it replicates
I think the complex "cells" emerging from this soup of particles and "evolving" to survive in the randomness and chaos is quite cool.
I love life simulations so much, dude. There were actual food chains, and a few of the simulations literally had multi-celled stuff. This kind of stuff is awesome.
10:47 I love these guys. They look like they have umbrellas
_Umbrellium qwertii_
@@malechex611 :D
I made my reply before seeing urs
1:58 first eukaryotic cell
3:44 cell walls form
4:08 complex life (and separate species)
5:26 many species (and racism)
5:34 mitosis
6:07 genuses start forming (similar species)
8:51 defense mechanisms arise (the blue "prey" cells start deflecting the red "predator" cells)
10:37 multicellular life emerges
11:14 cell nuclei form
12:52 filter feeders emerge
14:16 dna-like structure emerge
edit: how did this get over 15 likes in under a day
Thank you
Dam bro
bro made an edit for 15 likes
That filter feeders are something else entirely)
Although this is fun and all, I would like to remind everyone that everything in this comment is an egregious misrepresentation of these concepts. I don't believe that OP intended to pass this off as "real", but for those gullible enough, this is absolutely positively incorrect.
really makes you think about sentience
like, at what point do you go from mass to life? to brains? to concience?
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I personnaly think that what makes us sentient is just the size of our brain, like at one point we became smarter that other animals and we gained concience and emotions to better understand, but we need to understand because we have concience.. idk if it's clear I tried my best to explain my thoughts...
@@darkgobelin4439 we know that, @junhongwu1882 is asking at which point consciousness starts
@@darkgobelin4439The size of our brain doesn't really affect our intelligence. Popular misunderstatement. Though, i don't really know about what makes us far more intelligent than any other animal. I might guess that it's the amount of neurons in our brain.
@@PEIIIKA It's approximately the ratio of the brain-mass compared to body-mass that makes things intelligent
These kinds of simulations always spark so many ideas! What if you introduced gravity, each particle being attracted to a point at the centre inversely proportional to distance. What if you introduced energy, which affected the max speed of the particles? What if you grouped the particles in the beginning rather than randomly dispersed them? What if what if what if. This was beautiful. Thanks for putting it together
Saw the title and the thumbnail and the channel and I knew I was gonna see something good
If only more content creators knew these basic secrets to luring in more viewers.
Now I wanna see this with the atomic scale now. Protons, neutrons, electrons, or the quarks making them up, then watch them as they show the different properties of gravity, electromagnetic properties, charges, changes in state of matter (solid to liquid, liquid to gas, gas to liquid, liquid to solid, etc.), radioactivity, tranparecy, conductivity, malleability, and more. Imagine how big of a simulation you need just for those things that are surprisingly 99% empty
To be fair, you’d need to know how quantum gravity works, and no one knows how quantum gravity works lol
@@elementgermaniumhere's the great thing about simulations though! You don't, you just need to know it's effects! This simulation you watched was simplified as hell, and CELLS formed!
They can simulate a human organ I think on the molecular level. One of my prof told that in a lecture 10 years ago. But they had research computation clusters. I bet its even more achievable today.
The question is: will life emerge by doing such a simulation.
@@4984christian It depends on what you mean by "life"- In a simulation like this, I've personally seen simple "creatures" that eventually get so unstable they split into 3+, but more complex ones have a hard time
It would be AMAZING to one day see spontaneous generation with our OWN EYES, computer or not!
I made my own web implementation of particle life. I had to put the link in a community post on my channel as yt automatically deletes comments with links apparently. It's pretty fun to mess around with, but it isn't gpu accelerated so you can't have a massive amount of particles, the number varies on how good your cpu is.
Some of those looked completely alive. Very interesting.
I wount say they are alive you are seing the equivalent of wind it moves it pushes stuff but its not alive
@@ikosaheadrom *LOOKED* completely alive
@@leniterfortis4832 for they didnt look alive more of just particals moving about, the main thing that makes things alive is the ability to reproduce and metabolism i didnt see any of that in the simulation, i just saw multiple mobile black hole
@@ikosaheadrom You might be taking yourself too seriously.
@@ikosaheadrom man has never seen a microorganism
youtube's compression algorithm hates this man
Appreciate your attention to details! The foley sound effects add depth and professionalism to the video, loved it overall!
the fact that you skewed the laws of physics by not abiding to the reaction force is a no go for me. It still looks amazinng and feels alive
This is amazing! I'd like to see it with way more colors, even if you can't tell the colors apart you might see a lot of different species emerge
Many of these structures appear pretty stable, I think if this simulation had a way of making new particles out of existing ones, self-replication could be achieved
The simulation works a lot like a closed system, or a cave underground.
What this needs for it to be more realistic is to have new elements constantly appearing (kinda like energy from the sun hitting the earth)
self replication was achieved, it just involved murder
at one point the orange yellow and blue cells were wplit by the red and cyan cells creating two new cells, mitosis being acheived partially
@@funnifunnifunni mitosis kinda happens through and requires stimuli as seen in the simulation because without it they won't split
@@creature-zf8rs It's less of mitosis, and more of forced cytokinesis, the cell is violently ripped in half by some external structure and particles are somewhat evenly dispersed between the daughters.
As conway's game of life you can never really seem to be able to estimate how many generations this simulation will have or if it will be stable, if a cell will grow indefinetly, etc. Super duper cool particle chaos.
love the animations and the background music in this one! another amazing upload
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You could possibly make a kind of molecular behaviour by giving them properties which come into effect when they are "bonded" to another particle. A bond would be defined as a certain level of force interaction between 2 particles for at least x seconds (1N over 0.5 seconds bonds them until it stops or drops to 0).
Say when you have a structure made of reds and blues, it changes some attraction properties, or even adds some interaction properties with other pairings.
Amazing! It would be interesting to see if you could make a similar simulation that was able to show the cells reproducing and evolving
Really nice visualization, great music too.
One of the coolest videos I have ever seen highlighting emergent properties
Thank you for making this video, this is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while
I can watch this all day, it’s so cool to see the cell-like formations and what they do :)
Imagine introducing rules for life and death. It'd be really interesting to see
Actually, they are already there. A cell is alive while it's whole and moving, and dies when it's eaten by another or collapses
@@Aaa-hl6oj that's true but I meant the particles rather then cells
This actually might be the way that life started. The visualisation is great and you need to be more popular for what you are doing❤
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@@ak47ali50 Nope
@@pidx YOU MEAN THAT ALAH DIDN'T DO IT!!!!!
I need this as my phone and PC wallpaper, simulated in real time. So fun to watch!
I love the way the ones at 10:40 trail things behind them. So sci-fi like!
GREAT VIDEO!
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This is my attempt to catalog all the “lifeforms” that can evolve here. There are three main categories of life, which I will classify as Floaters, Coasters and Absorbers. Floaters are the simplest type of lifeform, being stationary creatures that just consist of one or two types of cells. These seem to be most common in simulations with low particle color counts. Species include 3:21 Flavum Botrus and 3:54 Red Centrum. Floaters do not necessarily have to be simple however, as the species Longa Forma demonstrates at 14:15. Coasters are species that revolve around being very fast, being able to speed across the map rapidly. These are surprisingly durable, being able to reform after an impact fairly easily. These can vary in speed, from being only moderately fast, like the species Neo Corpus at 4:13, or very fast, or the species family Purpura Caput at 6:35. Finally we have predators, which revolve around feeding on members of its own kind, as other prey species tend to destroy them. These can either be stationary or moving, as long as they can effectively catch prey and reform it into a part of itself. The species include Rubrum Luna at 11:02 and its ambush predator variant at 11:08 at the bottom of the simulation. My favorite species was the Navigare Navis at 10:45, a species of Coaster with a unique sail-shaped appearance. (God I spent way too long doing this lol)
Amazing! I love seeing all the different 'creatures' that appear.
This is so awesome and interesting!
This channel is so underrated
Great video, simply explained yet complex and beautiful. You could have add the force matrix you used for the different simulations.
This is going into my favorites playlist
Cool video please make more videos like this
I could watch this simulation running for hours, specially with this nice soft music
This video is underrated. It deserves more views
5:19 i love this
The creature on the bottom left literally exploded from eating too much
@@bluestone-gamingbg3498it was more like "reproduction" notice the parts formed 2 other of itself, that's similar to how some real cells reproduce.
@@Smiley_404 It seems like the "cell" itself was barely holding itself together, but due to the intense charge of the "membrane" attracting to the "nucleus" (via the bridging orange particles that attract both the "membrane" and "nucleus), it remained stable. Once the "cell" got a hold of more cyan particles (those that make up the "nucleus") the force overwhelmed that of the "membrane" and it violently exploded. From this, the "membrane" and "bridge" particles formed new, smaller "cells", which quickly picked up a "nucleus" of a few cyan particles.
This system is unbelievably impressive, notice how the daughters (terminating the use of quotation marks for convenience) without a nucleus of cyan particles form far more fluid structures, as the nucleus was a necessity for a proper membrane to form. Speaking of the membrane, the membrane appears perfectly formed to allow for fission of the cell. At large sizes (when the cell would want to divide), it forms slits that easily allow cyan particles into the nucleus, until the force overpowers the membrane and the cell divides.
The life cycle of this structure of particles works specifically to grow in size, until it is too large, then divide. This, however, is similar to a cell being struck by an external structure that forcefully divides it. The major difference here is how the cell itself works to allow for this.
The only issue with this cell is its inability to defend itself, despite how impressive its abilities of fission are, most or all of the offspring die before maturity (in which it divides).
Imagine a bullet hell game that you need to avoid those particles
It would be so cool
ah sweet
running from a perpetually exploding shrapnel bomb that ricochets all over the place
Intense Touhou gameplay💀💀💀
Bro this is so cool there were so many cool looking ones
this is bizarrely beautiful
Im early! And I love the video!
P.S. one hour ago i saw you had 59.9k subs but now its 60k
Its really cool how simple things can emulate life.
I wonder how the behaviour would change if there was variation in the particle size(weight) so that some particles will be less affected compared to others and some others will be more affected. I imagine like a solar system behaviour where the small ones will circle around big ones.
Really cool 👍🏼 Well done, bro
I've absolutely thought about a particle simulator as a videogame. Looks like an awesome start
Can you add polarity to the particles, like repelling from one side and attracting in another?
While I must admit that this is a very interesting concept, and that It does appear to simulate life, you forgot a crucial detail about life. You see, just because they are able to move and are also able to create complex formations, they are unable to act of their own accord. The particles in this video are only moving simply based on the laws of attraction and repulsion. For example, if I were to take a bunch of north pole and south pole magnets, while they could repel and attract each other to form complex structures, they are unable to move and act of their own accord. The same problem would occur, even if there were a dozen different types of magnetic poles.
On the contrary, life is able to move independent of outside forces. While some organisms have simple jobs that only require them to do a certain number of tasks, others are able to think for themselves and choose where they want to go, regardless of the forces of attraction and repulsion.
So, I ask you this one simple question. How do these particles evolve into complex organisms that are able to move independently of each other? I fail to see how these structures are able to produce a T-Rex that is able to think for itself even if they had a billion years to do it.
I think "external forces" is inaccurate. Your atoms are pulling on the Earth while it pulls on you. Your atoms are affecting a magnet while it's affecting you. I think there is no real internal vs external distinction, it's all the same field, and you can algebra the + / - signs to describe it from the perspective of this or that object. But that's an arbitrary choice, and exactly the same level of complexity will emerge from exactly the same level of simplicity, regardless of which side you put all the minus signs in your conceptual representation of whatever nature is actually doing.
@@bmatt2626 Basically what I’m trying to say is that there’s more to life than just pulling and repelling. The video only shows how particles will act based solely on pulling and repelling alone.
@@Osprey2511 I think the point is that even with only pulling and repelling, only 2 dimensions, only X compute, counterintuitively complex states and behaviors still arise. Of course it's not "real life", but understanding how "fake life" emerges from simple rules provides conceptual frameworks for people to investigate "real life". Playing with LEGOs isn't building skyscrapers, but if you ask 2 kids to analyze a skyscraper, the one who played with LEGOs will notice different things, ask different questions.
These are _models_ of _aspects_ of a thing, and in *2D*, which of course you can't get "real life" out of anyway, because all the twisting and folding of real particle configurations allows for waaay more complexity.
@@bmatt2626 Because you mentioned Lego, I will put this debate to rest. Well played.
i was using a nice implementation of particle life, i forgot the name of the guy who made it but the nice thing about it is it has a matrix that is editable that controls the forces of attraction and repulsion between the different particles, and i saw huge cells that would have mitosis, some had snake like structures, some would cluster into big groups to make multicellular things, if you tinker a little with it you can get surprisingly life like things from it.
It would be interesting to see particles be able to change into other particles when certain conditions are met, such as 2 red particles changing into a green for instance, or after a set amount of time. Combining this with rules similar to Conway's game of life would prove insightful to seeing how homeostasis naturally emerges.
Please I need to soundtracks to this, this is amazing
They look kinda like cells, yeah, but, as an astronomy student, they also look like tiny galaxies in the way they collide.
Because they actually work just like a bunch of nonliving material. Nothing like life at all.
iv thought of some things to try that may make it even more realistic. or et very least may have intertesting results.
nonlinear force curve. could result in more subtle interaction types
"coupling" force emulation (i.e particles that get very close "stick" aggressively and rigidly to each other until they are far enough apart)
tailored particle fields based on real world organic elements like hydrogen and carbon.
multi field models. electromagnetic and strong/weak force emulation.
When you think about it life is just particles of different types that like each other or hate. It's so simple, but so fascinating.
Super cool!
Btw what’s the background music?
Love it
I noticed that there are many shots where cells tend to travel from left to right. I wonder if there's a bias in phisics engine that favours that direction, or it is an intended feature, a background gradient. But still, nothing that makes it less amazing.
What is the best tool to simulate these environments? Is it a game engine, or JS, can it be done with Python? I just want to make similar stuff and maybe add some nice textures
Now to mimic life you need to give them a time frame for how long they can be in certain clusters to mimic length of life. I think you would need certain clusters to have other functions to mimic the behavior of things like antibacterial wash meeting bacteria, but that might be too complex.
5:34 those cells in the middle gonna have a talk with Pepsi in court
THIS IS SO COOL
It's....beautiful!
Fun observation: Almost all particle clusters or "organisms" end up moving from left to right in every simulation
You could even add individual mass to each particle type to better simulate real world particles. I'm not sure how complicated something like that would be and how much it would affect performance, but from my limited knowledge it doesn't seem like it would be immensely complicated.
If you think about it, pretty much everything in the universe is a bunch a particles following strict rules, so this is perfect.
What happens if you make the matrix symmetric (i.e. Newton's third law)? This would prevent the particles from gaining energy from nowhere.
Also, I think you may have some kind of update order bug? I noticed that all the groups of particles move more right than left in every simulation, and that tends to happen to me as well. You can usually get rid of it by breaking the loop into three separate loops, one to update the position, one to update the velocity, and one to update the acceleration, but this doesn't always work.
we need a part two that’s just a huge extremely long simulation
I need this as a screen saver
So nice thankyou :)
17:50 two celled organism at the bottom moving up!
6:40 i love that the forces are symetrical but the world still evolved prefering one direction
Do the particles have velocities of their own? Or is everything in response to the others
You should try and make a simulation made of negative particles that are attracted to positive particles, positive particles that are attracted to negative, and non polar particles that are attracted to themselves.
You can also make coupled nonpolar and polar particles to truly simulate a cell membrane.
Super interesting! Like watching an alien version of microorganisms form
I like the way you say the word "particles"
10:49 the sail boat creatures were my fav.
Do you plan on releasing the code for this?
I could watch this stuff for hours
Like damn it’s so cool to watch
Some particles consume others violently and others kinda passively grow
So in which program did u make this?
i clicked cus the thumbnail looked like my obsidian vault 💀
It would be cool to see bonding and conservation energy
That's pretty cool
I wonder if you add into this some kind of chemical reaction where when some specific particles get too close they would transform to other ones. I would like to see if something like reproduction can easily appear in this simulations also
Very nice video bro :)
This would be really good to teach about various forces on molecules/particles, I would really hope you publish it, or sell it even on something like steam for people to use to teach ewlements of physics or biology
uploading a video that is essentially thousands of tiny dots to youtube is certainly ambitious
Why not add reactions? In where one particle can change the type of another. I wonder what complexity could arise then!
I liked the video because it was interesting mathematically, however, it still doesn't explain the origin of life but only that information tends to cluster whenever it's possible/favourable, or that pattern emerges when things are viewed from a larger scale (Ramsey). The process behind the formation of the earliest life is way more complex than what you presented since a lot of things need to be just right.
love this
even with such simple ruleset it almost looks like life sometimes.
Imagine how it would get after adding more complex rules, like bonds, or multi-layer movement (like what's already here, but the repel/attract rules change at higher distances. making things repel to a point, and further than that attract, or vice versa, btw. this is an actual quantum property)
yt compression algorithm having a field day with this one
I have to admit I am curious. what would happen if you applied 35 different attract or repel values to 10 different colors in a 100 total particle simulation?
I beg you to make this code publicly available, I would love to toy around with it.
Same
When this fist came out I played this for weeks 😅
10:45 thats so cool. such a big gap inside the organisms
soooo... now add posiibility for dots to change colour, not all to any, that would simiulate energy/mass/heat conversion... maybe? idk, I love the project!
Ouch ! TH-cam didn't like the small floating particles very much
Where do all of these particles get the energy to move from?