# Chakazul/Lenia

Lenia - Mathematical Life Forms

Repository: https://github.com/Chakazul/Lenia
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lenia
Homepage: https://chakazul.github.io/Lenia/JavaScript/Lenia.html
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cellular-automata, lenia, matlab, javascript, python, artificial-life
Last push: 2024-07-19T08:43:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3111, "days_push": 775, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3814, forks 245 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:20.879433+00:00)

## What it is
Lenia is a collection of implementations (Python, MATLAB, JavaScript, Jupyter, R) of a continuous cellular automaton that produces naturalistic artificial life forms. It includes interactive real-time simulations with statistics tools, GPU support, and extensions to n-dimensional, multi-kernel, and multi-channel variants.

## Use cases
- simulate continuous cellular automata with lifelike emergent creatures
- explore artificial life research in 2D, 3D, and 4D
- run Lenia lifeform patterns interactively in the browser
- study statistics and periodicity of cellular automata patterns
- experiment with multi-kernel multi-channel CA variants

## When to choose
- you want to explore or demonstrate artificial life and emergent behavior
- you need a ready-to-run continuous cellular automata simulator with GPU support
- you are doing research or education on cellular automata

## When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose game engine or physics simulator
- you need a production application rather than a research/demo tool
- you require active feature development, as the project is in maintenance

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: simulation, data-visualization, graphics
- domain: artificial-intelligence, simulation, graphics, education
- platform: python, cross-platform, browser
- tags: cellular-automata, artificial-life, lenia, continuous-cellular-automata, emergence, research, web-server

## Member repositories
- Chakazul/Lenia (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:20.879433+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:26:33.640303+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Chakazul/Lenia (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:20.879433+00:00, sha 38099bdb3f0c)
  - homepage: https://chakazul.github.io/Lenia/JavaScript/Lenia.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:21:32.135305+00:00, sha 92fd21de3475)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.