I built a generative particle life simulator with emergent sound – feedback welcome!

🌌 What is it?

It’s inspired by the ideas behind Particle Life, cellular automata, and artificial life.
Each particle belongs to a species and interacts with others based on a real-time tweakable behavior matrix.

🧠 The simulation evolves over time, sometimes creating harmony, sometimes pure chaos — but all driven by simple rules.

🔊 What makes it special?

I added a generative ambient audio engine that reflects the current state of the system:

• Frequencies are derived from species interactions.

• Volume reflects energy per species.

• Pitch and timbre shift dynamically as the simulation changes.

• There’s even an oscilloscope visualizer showing the waveform in real-time.

What you hear is not music — it’s the simulation expressing itself.

💡 Use headphones for the best experience!

🧪 It’s still a prototype

• It currently runs fully on CPU (canvas 2D), and I’m working on WebGL optimization.

• Behavior matrix presets, evolution modes, and visual zoom are already in.

• You can pause/resume, regenerate, or edit the matrix freely.

🔮 Possible future additions (if people enjoy it):

• GPU/WebGL support for 20k+ particles

• Spectrogram-style visualizers per species

• “Lifeform” editor for creating new species

• MIDI or OSC output for audio-driven visual software

• Gameplay layer where you influence the system as a special agent particle

• More dynamic effects: echo, reverb, reactivity to mic input, etc.

📣 Why I'm posting this

This is an open experiment. I’m super curious to hear:

• How it makes you feel

• What you’d tweak or add

• Any weird or beautiful patterns you notice

Thanks for taking a look 🙌

Luis Mendoza