Bert Wang-Chak Chan

Artificial-life researcher who created Lenia (2019), a continuous cellular-automaton system that generates lifelike self-organizing patterns on a mass-conservative field — a well-known substrate in the artificial-life research community.

Matters to this vault as a co-author of Microcosmos (arXiv:2607.02954, 2026), whose introduction argues for physically grounded, differentiable simulation as an alternative to the abstract cellular-automaton lineage his own earlier work (Lenia) belongs to — one author, two competing substrates, five years apart.

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• claim-microcosmos-elastic-filaments-differentiable-gpu-fluid
• Captures: 2026-07-09-hop-microcosmos-gpu-alife, 2026-08-20-do-microcosmoss-scaling-benchmark-linear-to-500k-particles