28 stories tagged simulation, newest first.
4 points by imfinn | 0 comments
A Twitch live stream of Pip, a simulated virtual fruit fly in a terrarium that chat viewers can interact with via commands like !treat and !toy.
144 points by ibobev | 22 comments
Blog post explaining an implementation of procedural tree growth based on Palubicki et al.'s self-organizing tree models, covering light competition, resource allocation, and foliage rendering.
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35 points by zdw | 32 comments
YouTube video from Perfect Play simulating eight Monopoly strategies over 312 million games to identify the best approach and common mistakes.
82 points by jasonjmcghee | 30 comments
Project page for AlphaNIST, an end-to-end reinforcement learning policy for contact-rich, high-precision robotic assembly in simulation, with paper link and upcoming code.
154 points by ibobev | 35 comments
Eli Bendersky blog post explaining Monte Carlo simulations with examples like estimating pi by throwing darts, using Rust and Python.
27 points by jjsalamon | 3 comments
Meadows is a web tool and small text language for writing stock-and-flow diagrams, after Thinking in Systems, that render and animate as simulations.
59 points by trekhleb | 5 comments
Blog post by Oleksii Trekhleb explaining how to train a simulated car to self-park using a genetic algorithm in about 500 lines of code.
152 points by rossant | 90 comments
Interactive 3D web simulation of NAND-16, a 16-bit computer built entirely from 277,248 NAND gates, with zoomable gate-level view and running programs like Tetris and Snake.
1556 points by Jrh0203 | 383 comments
An interactive article on john.fun explaining how elevators work and the algorithms that decide which car answers a call.
867 points by jonbaer | 84 comments
An interactive 3D city simulation visualizing PostgreSQL internals like WAL, buffer pool, checkpointer, backends, and replication, with a guided tour.
1106 points by xnx | 621 comments
Waymo's official blog post introducing the Waymo World Model, a new approach to simulation for autonomous driving.
719 points by joshcsimmons | 804 comments
A browser-based interactive simulator game showing what autistic masking, decision fatigue, and burnout can feel like through choices and stats.
376 points by felineflock | 59 comments
The Evolution of Trust, an interactive animated game by Nicky Case explaining game theory and the iterated prisoner's dilemma.
371 points by smusamashah | 87 comments
MIT interactive project page presenting a virtual petri dish where digital creatures evolve eyes from scratch to replay the evolution of vision.
701 points by pieix | 116 comments
Atlas of Space is an interactive browser-based visualization of the Solar System that simulates orbits of planets, moons, and asteroids using Newtonian physics.
379 points by talms | 137 comments
GitHub repository from Altera hosting the Project Sid technical report on many-agent AI simulations toward AI civilization.
321 points by jasmcole | 82 comments
Wifi Solver is a browser-based WebGPU simulation that visualizes WiFi signal propagation from a router, running live on the user's device.
341 points by tomtranter | 110 comments
GitHub repository from Ionworks with a guide and notebook on understanding and improving battery performance through physics-based modelling with PyBaMM.
453 points by jarmitage | 125 comments
GitHub repository for NVIDIA Warp, a Python framework for writing high-performance GPU simulation and graphics code.
1406 points by surprisetalk | 238 comments
Interactive web demo of Conway's Game of Life built from patterns that simulate the Game of Life itself, with infinite zoom and a speed slider.
427 points by vnglst | 107 comments
Pong Wars is a browser animation in which two balls, day and night, bounce across a grid and capture squares from each other's territory.
329 points by hyperific | 81 comments
GitHub repository for Particle Life, a simple program simulating artificial life via attraction and repulsion forces between many particles.
431 points by loopion | 111 comments
A browser-based nuclear reactor simulator game from the University of Manchester's Dalton Nuclear Institute, developed by PlayGen.
396 points by Ruddle | 168 comments
A blog post by Thomas Simon walking step by step through building an economy simulator from scratch.
354 points by dosshell | 99 comments
GitHub repository for Egregoria, an open-source 3D city builder game written in Rust that does not use a grid.
417 points by dvrp | 140 comments
GitHub repository for OpenWorm, holding the main Dockerfile for the open-source software stack that simulates the C. elegans nematode, plus project-wide issues.
678 points by Smith42 | 230 comments
PhD Simulator is a retro-styled browser text game by Mianzhi Wang where the player navigates life as a new PhD student, managing hope, items, and status.
331 points by sieste | 49 comments
An interactive copy.sh Game of Life simulator loaded with a pattern that implements a working digital clock using cellular automaton structures.