I would love to see you posting on a more regular basis too! Note that I am allowed to say it as this applies to me as well ;)
I was smiling when I read the following sentence from your post:
How they change is based on the state of their neigbourghs
This indeed made me thinking to the 2021 Nobel prize in physics, about frustration. Of course, I am not referring to the climate part of the prize, but the other half on disordered systems (see here for more information).
My english spelling is still infinitely better than my Dutch spelling :3
I he did some work on IPS (interacting particle systems). Those are quite fun too.