PRIMORDIA

Species pull and push each other through a secret matrix. Cells, chasers and pulsing membranes emerge from nothing but those forces.

The original law reborn on the GPU: a hundred thousand particles surf species-scented fields, condensing into storms, membranes and living tissue.

No particles at all: a smooth field where one bell-curve rule of growth breeds glowing micro-organisms — gliders, reefs and breathing rings.

Blind crawlers sniff a glowing scent and steer toward it, weaving living networks of veins and membranes — a slime mould that solves mazes.

A colony with no leader and no map finds the shortest road between nest and food, on nothing but two evaporating pheromones.

A thousand starlings each watch only their seven nearest neighbours — and turn as one. Drag in a hawk and watch the cloud split and seal.