This life one is incredible

That is a great little piece, thanks for sharing!

It is a fun experience. You go in there with no instructions and no idea what is going on. You quickly figure out how you can interact with it and what is going on within that little world and try and make sense of it. Then you notice the title and try and piece that in with that model you've just created. And then you get to wonder if you are reading too much into it and it is just a fun little toy someone built or if there is some artistic story.

Yo I'm glad you like it!! I made it over a few days by giving instructions to GPT-4. About 80% of the time it would get my desired functionality exactly right. When I named it society.htm it looked and worked a lot differently, but I think the name still applies. I've started writing a readme for it but got distracted with other projects. Here is the github for it https://github.com/mnenoff/society-htm

Oh my god - when you pinch to zoom on that… it’s amazing

this is breaking my brain

Explanation on how it works: https://blog.oimo.io/2023/04/10/life-universe-en/

Wow, that quickly went from "ah this looks like it would be a cute thing to reproduce" to "oh god, this is way more wildly complex than I thought!"

on my phone, at least, it just endlessly says "loading". I could feel the seconds of my life slipping away.

It throws an error in the console...

it eventually loads, it's transferring >10MB into the "GPU" as a texture, as well as starting the overall meta-meta simulation. I am using a junk oneplus and it took about 15-20 seconds to start, but after that it was smooth like butter.

It has stuck in a loop, chrome mobile

Reminds me of this one clock[1][2] implemented in the Game of Life.

Just... how.

[1]: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/111932

[2]: https://copy.sh/life/?gist=f3413564b1fa9c69f2bad4b0400b8090&...

I opened this and thought it is just game of life. Then read elsethread and tried to zoom out. Wow.

I had something akin to a religious experience when I saw this for the first time, and reading the explanation blew my mind. One of the coolest things I've ever seen on the internet.