Particular

# A Living Garden of Artificial Creatures Organisms made of hundreds of particles self-organize, graze, hunt, flee, and evolve—nothing is scripted. The physics is **Particle Lenia**, an artificial-life model where every creature is defined by just **six numbers**, and everything you see emerges from them. --- ## 🌱 Four Ways to Play ### 🌱 Garden A zen sandbox. Sculpt creatures with attract/repel brushes, feed them, mutate their genes, mix species, and watch layered, lifelike patterns emerge. ### 🦠 Ecosystem Prey graze on falling food while a hunter pack senses and chases them. Hunters starve without kills. Tend the balance—or don't—and watch the ecosystem collapse. ### ✨ Shepherd Herd a creature you don't directly control into glowing rings. ### 🧩 Labyrinth Guide a soft-bodied organism through walls and narrow passages to reach the goal. --- ## 🎮 Controls - **Left Mouse:** Tool - Attract - Repel - Spawn - Erase - Food - **Keys 1–5:** Select tool - **Right Mouse:** Pan - **Mouse Wheel:** Zoom - **Space:** Pause - **R:** Reset --- ## 🧬 Emergent Life Every creature's color comes from its genome. Mutate a species and its hue drifts with it. Breed something beautiful, save it as a preset, and share a screenshot in the comments. --- **Prototype:** I'm still deciding what this becomes. **Which mode did you stay in the longest?**