Gif is very small due to lemmy.ml size restrictions. I can probably put a higher res one on youtube if ppl want to see.

edit: made it reasonable size by changing it to mp4

// Randomly spawn drops

// Take a random fraction of each cell move it down, or down and to the left or right

// The remainder of the fraction stays where it is

// Subtract a constant small value from all cells to prevent rain from accumulating

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3796105

> Video description: > > > A prototype of the project of virtual breeding of digital plants by crossing. Each plant has a genome, which is an array of numbers. By crossing plants (mixing their genome), we get a new kind of plant. In this way, you can get very interesting and unusual results. > > Summary generated by claude.ai from the video transcript: > > > A generative art project to create abstract images of imaginary plants. The creator starts with a genome represented as a sequence of numbers that gets fed into an algorithm to generate plant images. By evolving the genomes through processes like mutation and crossover, new plant images emerge. The creator discusses the challenges of defining an objective fitness function, since beauty is subjective. Without a fitness function for natural selection, the creator resorts to artificial selection by manually choosing genomes to crossover. The resulting plants have unique, imaginary qualities that can't be precisely predicted in advance. The creator notes some possible rules to make the plants more unique, like limiting how similar parent genomes can be. Overall, the project aims to explore an abstract generative space of imaginary plants through evolutionary techniques.