Description
In this talk I will demonstrate how to create Artificial Life in a computer using Python and its wonderful libraries.
The Python program, called “Lenia”, is developed to discover/evolve new life species, using its interactive UI to facilitate Evolutionary Algorithms (EA). A video recorded from the program won the Virtual Creatures Contest in GECCO conference 2018, Kyoto.
It utilizes the following libraries:
– NumPy for matrix calculation
– PyOpenCL/PyCUDA and Reikna for GPU acceleration – SciPy and
PIL/Pillow for image processing
– Tkinter (and potentially Matplotlib) for interactive UI – Subprocess
and FFmpeg for real-time video
Lenia is now open source at https://github.com/Chakazul/Lenia