2025-11-15
My Google Photos is chock-full of footage of moss, mushrooms, flowers, and bugs. Small organisms with
unbelievable complexity and diversity. Just look at the way the moss on this log in the rainforest of Vancouver
Island creates a mosaic of organisms competing for space.
This post is an exploration of emergent complexity, showcasing a WebGPU simulation inspired by Sebastian Lague's Coding Adventure, and his "slime mold" simulation.
At the start of 2024, on the heels of deciding to move across the country, I determined that I needed to ensure that I spent as much time in the company of the people I cared about as I could before leaving. What better way to do this than to set up a recurring weekly event at my apartment. So a natural first step was to develop a website.