An interactive lava lamp? An evolvable ant farm? Explore a world very different from our own.
Fluoddity
An interactive lava lamp? An evolvable ant farm? Explore a world very different from our own.
Small worlds — Stylized dioramas
Six interactive miniature worlds. Wander through an Italian harbor, a Japanese garden, a tropical island, a neon alley, forest ruins, and a sunken garden.
Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software
In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point…
Lightcone Research
An open ecosystem for inspectable, composable, and referenceable scientific research in the age of agentic AI.
sparklepets
A cute & cozy virtual world powered the Atmosphere. Adopt a lil pal, care for them and explore together!
Gaia's Garden Guest House in Auroville | garden | Gaia's Garden Guest House, Auroville Road, Auroville, Pondicherry, India
Gaia’s Garden Guest House has been part of this evolving Auroville experiment in human progress for the past 27 years. Such aspiration is not limited to residents of Auroville - visitors and guests from all over the world come here to sample what other possibilities life offers, apart from the mundane and the known. #gaiasgarden
Anthropeum
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
mata.garden
The garden is where we grow seeds of ideas. Either coming through a creative thought or a technological development we consider these live, multi-dimensional, interactive sketches or maquettes. It's important to have ideas that have no specific functional end but are there only to evolve and mutate into others. This is our place to do that.
Easy Build LAVA TILES Painted 2 Ways
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
The synchronized flashing of fireflies at night. The spiraling patterns of an aggregating slime mold. The anastomosing network of army-ant trails. The coordinated movements of a school of fish. Researchers are finding in such patterns—phenomena that have fascinated naturalists for centuries—a fertile new approach to understanding biological systems: the study of self-organization. This book, a primer on self-organization in biological systems for students and other enthusiasts, introduces readers to the basic concepts and tools for studying self-organization and then examines numerous examples of self-organization in the natural world. Self-organization refers to diverse pattern formation processes in the physical and biological world, from sand grains assembling into rippled dunes to cells combining to create highly structured tissues to individual insects working to create sophisticated societies. What these diverse systems hold in common is the proximate means by which they acquire order and structure. In self-organizing systems, pattern at the global level emerges solely from interactions among lower-level components. Remarkably, even very complex structures result from the iteration of surprisingly simple behaviors performed by individuals relying on only local information. This striking conclusion suggests important lines of inquiry: To what degree is environmental rather than individual complexity responsible for group complexity? To what extent have widely differing organisms adopted similar, convergent strategies of pattern formation? How, specifically, has natural selection determined the rules governing interactions within biological systems? Broad in scope, thorough yet accessible, this book is a self-contained introduction to self-organization and complexity in biology—a field of study at the forefront of life sciences research.
Swarm Simulator
An incremental game. Starting with just a few larvae and a small pile of meat, grow a massive swarm of giant bugs.
AGENTWORLD | *
An exploration of planetary intelligence, tracing how computation and cosmology—from ancient mechanisms to AI—reshape Earth and its possible futures.
Digital gardening
Digital gardens in theory and practice
oleeskild/obsidian-digital-garden
Tranquil PDS
Garden and the Stream - thoughts
Digital Gardens (by owais) — Semble
digital gardens (by treethought) — Semble