Local message passing interaction through Sobel/Laplace kernel gradient instead of Dense layer Growing Neural Cellular AutomataTraining an end-to-end differentiable, self-organising cellular automata model of morphogenesis, able to both grow and regenerate specific patterns.https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/Self-classifying MNIST DigitsTraining an end-to-end differentiable, self-organising cellular automata for classifying MNIST digits.https://distill.pub/2020/selforg/mnist/Self-Organising TexturesNeural Cellular Automata learn to generate textures, exhibiting surprising properties.https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/Thread: Differentiable Self-organizing SystemsThread: Differentiable Self-organizing SystemsA collection of articles and comments with the goal of understanding how to design robust and general purpose self-organizing systems.https://distill.pub/2020/selforg/