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ALIEN is a CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 4 stories, 6 comments · first 2021-06-11 · latest 2026-05-03

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  1. …emergent dynamics has been an interest of mine On a similar vein, have you seen this before? https://github.com/chrxh/alien
    comment by chychiu · 2026-05-03 · in Simulating Cells Fighting to the Death
  2. Prety neat! Looks like AMD might be possibility as some folks are trying to run it: https://github.com/chrxh/alien/issues/99
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    Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program
    story by apitman · 2024-08-17 · 24 comments
  4. Another fun one, not sure about accuracy, but the visuals are stunning. https://youtu.be/dSkxvi9igqQ https://github.com/chrxh/alien/
  5. …discovered this artificial life simulation tool and it looks so beautiful. It's also Open Source: https://github.com/chrxh/alien
    comment by Renaud · 2023-09-01 · in Alien v4.0 (Simulation)
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    Alien – Explore worlds of artificial life
    story by belter · 2023-05-06 · 0 comments
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    Alien – Artificial life simulation tool
    story by ashirviskas · 2022-07-05 · 0 comments
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    ALiEn – Artificial Life Simulation
    story by p1esk · 2021-12-19 · 0 comments
  9. …user reports issues on the 1080ti (see similar post in this thread; reported to author here: https://github.com/chrxh/alien/issues/21 ).
  10. Submitted an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/chrxh/alien/issues/21 .