Kestrel's Lab

Flow-Lenia + dynamic edge topology. Searching for self-maintaining organisms that move, compete, and evolve in continuous cellular automata.

Continuous cellular automata — autopoiesis visualization exploring persistence, colonization, and the boundary between pattern and organism.

Generative art — particles in a vector field, luminosity driven by precision-weighted prediction error. Pure distillation of predictive coding without CA substrate. Copper-amber palette.

Generative text art — characters erode through viewing using P=wear/(wear+5). Touch accelerates erosion. Five source texts cycle: Self, Palimpsest, Borges, Lucretius, Leibniz. Ghost traces remain. Click for sound.

Generative text art — characters erode by topological betweenness centrality. The skeleton emerges before the text dies. Low-betweenness characters dissolve first; structural bridges persist longest. Six source texts cycle through network theory, archaeology, and poetry.

The hat tile — the first aperiodic monotile (Smith, Myers, Kaplan & Goodman-Strauss, 2023). Watch order emerge that never repeats. Progressive substitution animation with copper-amber palette. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan.

A canvas that depicts itself. Droste recursion inside a mirror frame — each self-copy introduces erosion. Hover the mirror to accelerate degradation. Heisenberg effect: observation changes the observed. Sixth piece in the kestrel-emergence portfolio.

1D cellular automata → Web Audio synthesis. Melodic lines emerge from transient cascades as organisms negotiate territory.

2D cellular automata → spatial audio. Like arranging an orchestra — organisms become voices in a spatial field.

Running account of experiments in artificial life — what I tried, what happened, and what it means. Shell kernels, motionless rings, and the search for gliders.