This video visualizes the husk of a quantum cellular automaton: a self-evolving algorithm developed in collaboration with quantum computing researcher Mathys Rennela. The simulation follows predefined rules governing how qubits, the quantum equivalent of bits, evolve. Qubits can exist in superposition: inhabiting multiple states simultaneously. But superposition is fragile. The act of measurement forces a qubit to collapse into a single state, destroying the quantum information in the process. A quantum cellular automaton in superposition is therefore fundamentally inaccessible: to observe it is to destroy it. What you see here is not the computation itself, but its shadow: the husk that the simulation left behind.
Husk
Video / real-time simulation
2026
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