Organism World Lab v1.0: A Living Simulation

Organism World Lab is our latest Quantum Toy - a living ecosystem simulator where you can watch species evolve, compete, and adapt in real-time. It's part game, part educational tool, part meditation on the nature of life.

The simulation runs on a spherical surface (no edges, no boundaries), populated by digital organisms. Each organism has a simple genome that determines its behavior: how fast it moves, what it eats, how it reproduces, how it responds to threats.

Three types populate the world: producers (plant-like organisms that generate energy from nothing), consumers (herbivores that eat producers), and predators (carnivores that eat consumers). The classic food chain, but with emergent complexity.

What makes it interesting is the evolutionary pressure. Organisms that survive long enough reproduce, passing their genome (with small mutations) to offspring. Over generations, you see genuine adaptation: consumers that cluster near producer-rich areas, predators that develop ambush strategies, producers that evolve faster reproduction to outpace consumption.

The connection to NUMO theory is in the state space. Each organism exists in one of 10 states mapping to our Cauldron structure: growth states, consumption states, flight states, reproduction states. Transitions between states follow δ-pair rules, creating predictable but rich dynamics.

You can run the simulation hands-off and watch ecosystems emerge, or intervene: introduce new species, trigger extinctions, modify environmental parameters. It's a sandbox for understanding how simple rules create complex living systems.

Try it at /lab. No installation required, runs in your browser. Watch life evolve, and maybe learn something about our own world in the process.