Dr. Robert Insall’s presentation on Chemotaxis, a mechanism by which cells can navigate complex spaces by detecting and amplifying cellular gradients, inspired me to replicate…
Agglomerative Growth in Unity
Inspired by NetLogo’s Diffusion Limited Aggregation examples, I wrote a Unity Demo that creates agglomerative growth structures in 3D. Use your mouse to pan and…
EggBoy
The main characters of Grow Together are these little egg-shaped hovering Xenobiologists, shown in some sketches below. I wanted to recreate this in Unity, so…
Fun with Lights
I recently started playing around with building games in Unity. As an experiment with lighting, I created the scene below, which you can interact with…
Symbiogenesis and Combinatorial Learning
As part of research into the Gaia hypothesis and Earth System Science for a game Grow Together, I recently discovered Lynn Margulis and her pioneering…
Network Specialization
Neural networks have achieved great success over the last two decades in solving challenging problems, from diagnosing pneumonia in chest x-rays to playing a wide…
Chaotic Dynamical System Maps as Optimization Problems
A few years ago I came across a paper that demonstrated a technique to estimate the value of parameters in dynamical systems–such as the gravitational…