cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use HexLife Explorer in your work, please cite it as below."
title: "HexLife Explorer"
type: software
authors:
  - name: "Sidem"
abstract: >-
  An interactive web-based cellular automaton laboratory on a hexagonal grid.
  A Rust/WebAssembly tick engine runs nine concurrent worlds (one Web Worker
  each), rendered with instanced WebGL2. Rulesets are 128-bit (32-character
  hex) with deterministic mnemonic names, and an evolutionary Auto-Explore
  search scores candidates on structure, criticality, block-entropy dynamics,
  and transport, then ranks the survivors with a small HexLife-native
  trajectory model trained on human preference judgements, to find interesting
  emergent behavior.
repository-code: "https://github.com/Sidem/HexLife"
url: "https://sidem.github.io/HexLife/"
license: MIT
# Keep in step with package.json and the git tag — `npm version` bumps package.json, and these
# two lines are the manual half of a release (see README § Versioning & releases).
version: "1.3.0"
date-released: "2026-08-11"
keywords:
  - cellular automata
  - hexagonal grid
  - artificial life
  - complex systems
  - emergence
  - edge of chaos
  - generative art
  - evolutionary search
  - Rust
  - WebAssembly
  - WebGL2