Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations

Sebastian Lague · 2.2M views · 2021-03-25 · 17:54

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Overview

Sebastian Lague explores an ant-inspired algorithm and simulates ant and slime mold behavior, using compute shaders. Source code for both simulations is available.

On Hacker News

HN recommends it as a beautiful example of what simple rules and compute shaders can produce, and many commenters were inspired by it.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2021–2024

Topics

Creative coding & generative art Computer graphics & rendering

What people said

Risord · 2024-08 · Strong recommendation
At the time I was lost joy of coding too but I was able to found it again. One key point was to ignore learning new tech if it was not absolutely necessary and focus just creating new things. I think it all started from Sebastian Lague's video which reminded how beautiful coding can be. [ [VIDEO] ]
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Udo · 2023-05 · Strong recommendation
Sebastian Lague made an excellent video "Ant and Slime Simulations" which explores how path-finding algorithms can use trails and gradient-based signaling to solve spatial problems: [VIDEO]
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ehsankia · 2021-04 · Strong recommendation
Speaking of ant and slime simulation, this recent video Coding Adventures video was pretty mind blowing: [VIDEO] (Especially part 2 starting around 10m in).
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