Image Evolution

▚▞ IMAGE EVOLUTION

the structure holds · the interior evolves · the image dissolves · its own colors rebuild it

Image Source init · analysis

…or drop a file anywhere on the page

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Used only to initialize cells & analyze structure. Never drawn beneath the simulation.

Grid

Rows Cols

Sampling likeness

Detail clarity

65%

Match image aspect

Clarity pulls each cell toward its most distinctive pixel — eyes, lips and outlines stay visible instead of averaging into skin tone. Averages are computed in linear light for truer tones.

Photos / portraits: use 96–128 grid + clarity 60–85%, and turn on Smooth cell rendering below.

Structure Preservation –

35%

Outline locked cells in SIM view

Strongest contours become a permanent skeleton: always alive, original color, unkillable. With clarity on, eyes and lips are strong lock candidates.

Importance

Survival strength

0.60

Edge sensitivity

1.00×

Doomed cells resist death with probability ≈ strength × importance^1.25 (capped at 95% — nothing is immortal).

Visual

Show grid Subtle age tinting Smooth cell rendering

Smooth blits the grid through a 1 px-per-cell buffer with interpolation — photo-like at high grids and faster than per-cell rectangles (cell gap is ignored; grid lines still overlay).

Grid opacity

14%

Cell gap

1 px

Fade speed

0.25/g

Background

Reconstruction

Fill mode

Wave pattern

Mutant shimmer after restore

Wave speed

×1.0

MEMORY (default): empty cells are recolonized by the evolved colors of their restored neighbors — the image reforms as a memory of its journey. Surviving mutants keep their colors and flare as the wave passes. ORIGINAL = classic Gen-0 restore.

Simulation Speed

12 gps

Audio procedural

Sound effects

engine: off

Master volume

75%

Birth plucks Dissolution ticks Reconstruction swell Population drone

Drone level

55%

Off by default (browser autoplay rules). Click 🔊 once — it unlocks the audio engine and plays a test chime. Any click/keypress also wakes the engine if the browser suspended it.

0.0

1.0 · vital

LOCKED STRUCTURAL CELL

EVOLVING INTERIOR CELL

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Status

READY — GENERATION 0

Press ▶ Play. Runs until extinction, stability, or a loop — or pause anytime and press ✦ Reconstruct to rebuild from the current state.

Reconstruction0%

Vital Signs

Generation: 0
Locked skeleton: –
Alive (interior): –
Fading ghosts: –
Mutated colors: –

Debug Mode inspector

Enable cell inspector

Hover to probe · click to pin.

Cell Inspector

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