alt.hn

2/8/2026 at 1:18:37 PM

Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

https://znah.net/graphs/

by znah

2/9/2026 at 4:02:05 PM

My quick investigation indicates that rule 2183 with a zero flipProb and the "fancy tentacles" is the most consistently able to generate penis-like images

by gota

2/9/2026 at 8:00:21 PM

Addendum: limit it to ~300 growthLimit to... manage expectations

And the preset doesn't matter - I thought it was a initial config that applies to any rule; it is a preset of the previous parameters instead

by gota

2/9/2026 at 8:27:10 PM

500 growthLimit for others…

;)

by reactordev

2/9/2026 at 3:16:22 PM

Pleasingly wiggly :)

8690 with a non-zero flip probability has a fun little effect I call "whoomph"

by chuckadams

2/9/2026 at 3:51:19 PM

8690 with a high flipProb, "stable explosion" preset, is like a fuse -

be patient and it 'explodes'.

Very fun!

(Edit: apparently the fuse can 'die off' but the thing still eventually explodes)

by gota

2/10/2026 at 12:22:05 AM

I think I'm most impressed with the actual display of the graph! I'm curious how it would do if a full graph was loaded and displayed, rather than iterated. Would it be as nice, or is it the iteration that makes it so well organized? I find most graph drawing libraries to be so bad.

by nomel

2/9/2026 at 4:30:09 PM

looks kinda like wolfarm physics project: ref: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-t...

by DesiLurker

2/9/2026 at 4:56:47 PM

Now we can see it knitting space-time before our eyes

by theknarf

2/9/2026 at 6:14:32 PM

ha, great minds. Posted nearly the exact same thing, but you were first, so upvote for you.

by kentf

2/9/2026 at 5:00:32 PM

Haven’t heard of SwissGL before, but this render feels super performant. Nice work with the Barnes-Hut algo!

by sanufar

2/10/2026 at 11:54:06 AM

Hey, I saw your SwissGL demo at 39C3.

Awesome graph visuals. Beautiful and a little unsettling.

by danbrueks

2/9/2026 at 10:59:19 PM

This somehow utterly destroys my 3070Ti when running on Firefox.

Fortunately works fine on other browsers - I was just a bit confused initially that there were so many positive comments for something that ran at 1fps.

by Xarovin

2/10/2026 at 3:31:58 PM

My Pixel 8 running Firefox handles it happily even when I turn up the limits. I guess Arm Immortalis G715s is the new top dog for gaming.

by Y_Y

2/9/2026 at 3:13:02 PM

Good scifi. Strong alien vibe. Reminds me of Dark City.

Tends to get spindley but maybe that's just my phone

by analog8374

2/9/2026 at 4:13:14 PM

This is awesome.

I'd love to see it with more than one type of stem cell and also some kind of apoptosis.

by __MatrixMan__

2/9/2026 at 7:11:28 PM

Wow. Just stunning. Congrats!

by londont

2/9/2026 at 3:31:41 PM

Feels like building proteins, or some kind of RNA/DNA molecules.

by JKCalhoun

2/9/2026 at 6:14:07 PM

This is beautiful. Have you looked at Stephen Wolfram's Physics project?

https://www.wolframphysics.org/

Reminds me of watching his idea of spacetime coming into existence.

by kentf

2/9/2026 at 11:21:28 AM

mesmerizing...

by n0um3n4

2/9/2026 at 9:46:05 PM

Some of those look like thongs.

by felineflock

2/9/2026 at 3:40:14 PM

Very cool! Feels very alive

by jezzamon

2/9/2026 at 10:27:14 PM

Awesome. Well done.

by bkdbkd

2/9/2026 at 10:32:19 PM

really really awesome.

by bkdbkd

2/9/2026 at 7:16:07 PM

I get black screen on chrome. Works only on firefox.

by senfiaj

2/9/2026 at 5:41:36 PM

Amazing!

by psawaya

2/9/2026 at 10:30:14 AM

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by cboyardee