Project Genesis · artificial life from one rule

Living Simulators

One local rule — constraints relaxing into agreement — is enough to grow organisms that build themselves, minds that decide (chess and otherwise), and the cosmic structure they’re made of. Every tile below is a simulator that runs in your browser. Same engine, different bodies.

Artificial life · autopoiesisOrganisms that build themselves

Systems that assemble and maintain their own bodies. Here the labeling rule is the metabolism — a form that grows, grooms, repairs and reproduces itself, with no controller outside the tissue.

Living wiring · function from structureNervous systems, relaxing

Real and toy wiring diagrams relaxed into function. Feed in a stimulus and watch structure alone decide where the activity flows — a nervous system as a field settling into agreement.

Artificial cognition · strategyMinds at play — chess

Strategy as artificial life of the mind: engines that reason by relaxation instead of search, learn a player’s move-logic from their games, and spend a clock the way a living thing spends energy.

Emergence · structure from one ruleBefore life, structure

Life needs a universe to happen in. The same rule condenses matter into webs, halos and thresholds — the pre-biotic genesis, mostly on real astronomical data, honestly framed.

Self-Gravitating Light

Cosmic structure condenses from a single rule — the origin of Project Genesis.

simulation
🟩

In the Beginning

The seven days of Genesis, built block by block — an isometric voxel diorama with a hotbar of days. The coloring-book version.

voxel
🖥️

Genesis, in a Terminal

The same seven days rendered by a hand-written ASCII voxel engine — a rotating 3-D diorama, quaternion camera slerping between the days. After David Harrison.

ascii engine
🗺️

Living Worlds

Three fantastical biomes on the same ASCII voxel engine — Terraformer, Floating Isles & the Deep Reef. One universe, three doors; Gooblets graze, Zappies orbit.

worlds hub
🌱

Terraformer

A cold drifting stone hatches into a living world across seven epochs — core, sky, seas, twin suns, bloom, swarm, hum.

ascii engine
🏝️

Floating Isles

A levitating sky-archipelago that builds itself — anchor stone, rising isles, skyfalls, mushroom groves, crystal spires & a lantern festival.

ascii engine
🌊

The Deep Reef

A bioluminescent deep grown tide by tide — trench, thermal vents, coral, kelp towers, anglerlights, jellyfolk & the glow tide.

ascii engine
🎼

Chess Maestro, in 3-D

A chess game as a living voxel terrain — the HRL influence field becomes elevation (water on the contested seam), each piece tinted by its relaxed tactical role. Step move by move; the same core.js exports to Minecraft & Roblox.

hrl · voxel
🎭

Maestro — the Cast, in Voxels

Your game played by its narration characters — each piece the real emoji glyph rebuilt as a 3-D voxel standee (🦁🐲🏰🤴👸🦏), tracked from its home square, with cast-voiced narration. Steps move by move on a solid isometric board.

emoji voxels
🕶️

Maestro — Cyberpunk 2045, ATL

The grid has you. A real 10-minute game rendered as a neon voxel city — cyan towers are Underground-held, magenta is Authority-held, and the contested seam floods green. Every piece is a netrunner (🔥 HOTLANTA.h, 👾 QUEEN.EXE) or an agent (🎩 The Architect), narrated move by move in falling code.

neon voxels
🌌

The Real Cosmic Web

25,000 SDSS galaxies, relaxation-labeled into void, filament & cluster.

real data
💥

Seeded by the Big Bang

A cosmic web grown from the real ΛCDM matter power spectrum.

simulation
🌗

The Fingerprint of Dark Matter

165 real galaxy rotation curves — the gap with no light behind it.

real data
🚰

The Clog Threshold

The Radial Acceleration Relation, from 3,343 real measurements.

real data
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Does the Threshold Emerge?

The clog, tested dynamically — and an honest null result.

null result
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The Four Poles

A tetrahedral ontology — a conjecture: dark matter as the noise.

conjecture
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The Simplex Ladder

1·2·3·4 — Troolean relaxation climbing one dimension at a time.

concept

The engine & its usesMethod & world

The engine itself, and where it touches the world — forecasts that beat every single model, humanitarian mapping, the maths underneath, and a wearable on real data.