Max | Emergent Garden
emergentgarden.bsky.social
Max | Emergent Garden
@emergentgarden.bsky.social
creator of the emergent garden youtube channel, mindcraft, and the life engine. i like weird programs.
ants :)
May 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
vibing with gemini and claude
April 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I realized the LLM agents can simulate Conway's Game of Life in Minecraft. This was always possible, but very tricky to do. This is claude-thinking.

I wonder what else was always possible.
March 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
:)
February 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
AI is powerful and dangerous (in minecraft).
In my new video, I demonstrate that all LLMs are willing to build cathedrals and utopias, and bombs and torture chambers. Here is o3-mini-high, destroying a village it had just enhanced🧵
February 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Day 24: Geometric Art
Evolving an image again, this time with circles. Can you tell what the target image is?
#genuary #genuary24
January 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Day 23: brutalist architecture. #genuary
Built by o1! The real deal, not preview, not mini. Finally got access.
Impressive stuff. Full vid on patreon. More to come.
January 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Day 22: Gradients only.
These are the gradients for the surface below. I HAD to use o1 to compute partial derivatives, the original function was a doozy. #genuary #genuary22
January 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Day 21: Collision detection (line intersections)
No AI help! I had to break out a notebook for some middle school algebra.
Years ago I failed a programming interview question for intersecting lines. This is my revenge. #genuary21 #genuary
January 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Day 20: Generative architecture. Using the Replay mod to capture AI builds!

o1-preview asked to build a roman villa. Kinda impressive, but plain. I suspect reasoning models have limited creativity, because they are trained for tasks with objective answers. #genuary
January 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
January 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Day 15 (design a rug) + Day 16 (generative palette)
A little website to draw from a palette of nested shapes, here used to make a rug.
evolvecode.io/apps/rug_pal...
I'm bit late but this is 2 birds with one stone
#genuary #genuary15 #genuary16
January 17, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I made an actual working chess zoo! The pieces can never capture each other, assuming they cannot jump over walls (X tiles).
evolvecode.io/chess_zoo.html
(for #genuary14 Pure black and white. No gray.)
January 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Day 13: Triangles and nothing else.
This is an evolutionary algorithm that recreates an image (mr darwin) by randomly drawing triangles in a population of images and selecting the one closest to the target, then repeat.
#genuary #genuary13
January 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Day 12: Subdivision. #genuary12 #genuary
Subdividing circles depth-first
January 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM