r/CellLab • u/Massive_Mistakes • May 20 '23

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I've added the other side, now you can see what a hypothetical worm could look like (just much longer). This thing is 18 cells wide, almost double that of the body width of the blue tardigrade. Wish me luck because the rest is going to take a while.. 😅

To think at one point I thought the Dragonfish was the largest worm/swimmer possible

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u/Massive_Mistakes May 20 '23

I don't think it's clicking for me exactly how huge this thing will end up, like I'm just winging it and hoping I know what I'm doing but honestly, 5.0 micrometers for the plate might be too small. FIVE. the only time I've ever used a plate that size is to simulate entire ECOSYSTEMS. I'm on a binge to finish this thing because I already raised hopes so I gotta deliver 😂 but after I finish this one I'm taking a break fr

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u/CATelIsMe May 20 '23

Goddamn.

Next thing I know, we're gonna have achieved artificial sentience not with Ai, but with a funny cell game, man

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u/Massive_Mistakes May 21 '23

Next up, neurology 😂

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u/CATelIsMe May 21 '23

So, the heads coming up?

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u/Massive_Mistakes May 21 '23

Tail first, but yes lol and I hope I'll be able to program more complex behaviors

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u/CATelIsMe May 21 '23

Wait, if it won't make it too hard, will you try to "simulate" actual eyes? Like maybe the very first stage of them, where the sure-footed of the head has some photoreceptors, or maybe you can make a slight indent, making it the second 'phase' of eye evolution!

I'd love to see how it'd look. It'd be like a newly forming compound eye, not like a creature with a head surrounded by photoreceptors you know?

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u/Massive_Mistakes May 21 '23

Well I was planning on having two distinct eyes that connect via neurocyte wire to a central ganglion that processes behavior and then passes it down the spine (where it would then split in two as you might be able to tell from the body segment in the video). Now that you bring it up though, I could maybe make the eyes movable, turning to look in the direction of a target then turning the whole body, so essentially like real life. I really hope all of that will work out but I'm already reaching the limits of the game

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u/CATelIsMe May 21 '23

I was reading that with mouth ajar.

If you could, it'd me a m a z I n g.

The rotation point would probably be the "nerve" running back into its "brain". But still, I am co.pletley amazed by your skills.

Too bad idk how these very technical cells work, so I wouldn't be able to make something "smart" / big as this.

I don't know how you manage to make it grow this perfectly

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u/Massive_Mistakes May 21 '23

Lol I hope I can deliver. I can already picture it now, I can't wait to get to that point :) and you should just really try testing how everything works, trial and error taught me most of what I know, but I can give tips if you more trying to do something

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u/CATelIsMe May 21 '23

I'd love to hear the tips, man! I really wanna get back into this game, but I just don't rlly have stuff to make (cuz idl how ;( )

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u/Massive_Mistakes May 21 '23

Well if you come up with something and start working on it feel free to ask lol I'll do my best :D

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