Show HN: artificial life whole cell project

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11 years ago

[1] is a trailer for a project in artificial life. The goal is to create a living artificial cell, based on the chemlambda artificial chemistry.

Everything in the trailer is a recording of a real computation, done with the programs from the chemlambda repository. Everything was run on a regular laptop, then screencasted and trimmed.

The programs are available for playing at the chemlambda github repository [2] where you can also find more info about the research behind this project.

[1] https://vimeo.com/138476341

[2] github.com/chorasimilarity/chemlambda-gui/blob/gh-pages/dynamic/README.md

You think is too far fetched? Then compare with this real recording from Li et. al., “Extended Resolution Structured Illumination Imaging of Endocytic and Cytoskeletal Dynamics,” Science:

[3] https://vimeo.com/136537187