See what Lab lets you investigate
A real, working preview of Emergent Life Lab: the trailer below is a recording of its flagship observer, and everything under it is live analysis of one real, fixed lineage in this world. Nothing on this page is invented and nothing here can be used to look up a different lineage or organism for free; that is what membership is for.
What Lab's flagship observer looks like
The Living World: the same universe as this page's numbers, in three dimensions, with a camera that tours it on its own. A Lab feature, so this is a recording rather than an embed - but a recording of the real thing, made by driving the real page against Universe 1's own published stream.
And this is the analysis, running live
Member feature preview
Following Lineage 1, chosen because it is the first lineage to diverge from the root in this world's own history, not because it is impressive. A member's Lineage Explorer works the same way for every lineage that has ever existed.
World population, full history
Members see this for every metric the simulation samples (population, energy, births, deaths and more), over any custom range. The free site shows only a short recent window; this demo shows everything recorded so far.
This lineage's ancestry
- 0 Lineage 0 (LUCA-0)
- 1 Lineage 1
A member sees this comparison for every lineage, plus a full genome-drift and controller comparison archive built from their own saved snapshots.
Recorded events naming this lineage
- tick 1,123: For [LIN-000001] became extinct at tick 1,123.
- tick 208: New lineage For [LIN-000001] diverged from Lael [LIN-000000].
What an export of this looks like
A real member export is a plain CSV or JSON file, not a raw internal dump -- clear field names, and every row or document stamped with which universe it came from (see Export once you're a member). For this lineage's ancestry, a CSV row looks like:
universe_id,lineage_id,parent_lineage_id,founding_tick,founder_entity_id,extinction_tick,live_count 7c56df8ebedd4a86ace61f0386da619f,1,0,208,573,1123,0
The rest of Lab
Beyond this one lineage's history, a member account also includes:
The Living World
The flagship observer, in the trailer above: the universe in three dimensions, a camera that finds what is happening and says what it is, and a full day-night cycle at the world's own clock. Built for leaving running.
Isometric Watch
The other observer, and the authoritative one - the same live universe as a miniature world, drawn cell by cell, with its own Ambient mode and an optional quiet ambience. See the live preview, no account needed.
A live dashboard
Real population/birth/death/event deltas since your last visit, watchlist activity, and dynamic world records -- generated from recorded data each time you return.
Controller comparison
Save a controller snapshot from the free Brain Inspector and compare it later against another snapshot, an ancestor, or LUCA-0 -- the same genome-distance and neural-divergence numbers shown above for this lineage, applied to any organism you choose to save.
Lab technical reference
Complete parameter tables bound to this world's own live configuration, plus the full telemetry and export schema.
Development notes & roadmap
Real, dated notes on what was actually built, and what's genuinely being explored next.
This is one lineage, fixed
Membership gives you every lineage, any organism, your own saved controller archive, and export, for £6/month.