artificial-life op• Data kinds: image → image
• Call: fullseye.apply(img, "alife_perona_malik", a=0.5, b=0.5) (the 2-D model is one image plus two scalar knobs a,b∈[0,1])

*The figure is the real output on a synthetic 128×128 input. Left: input, right: output (a non-image return value is shown as the value itself).*
Perona-Malik anisotropic (edge-preserving) diffusion.
Explicit 4-neighbour update I <- I + lam * sum_dir g(|grad_dir I|) grad_dir I
with the Perona-Malik conductance g(s) = 1/(1 + (s/kappa)^2): inside a flat
region g -> 1 and the field diffuses like the heat equation, across a strong
edge g -> 0 and the edge is preserved. Unlike a bilateral filter the
conductance is recomputed from the *evolving* field at every iteration, which
is what makes the edges sharpen rather than merely survive. `a` sets the
edge scale kappa = 0.02 + 0.2a, `b` the iteration count 1 + int(15b);
lambda is fixed at 0.2 (<= 0.25, the explicit-scheme stability bound).
• gallery2d_physics_alife_3d family guide
• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).
• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.
• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.
The program below has been verified to run (same input as the figure). In Studio's help this block becomes buttons that load and run it on the spot.
alife_perona_malik 0.50 0.50
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• gallery2d_physics_alife_3d — py -3.11 examples/gallery2d_physics_alife_3d.py
image as input)identity · gaussian · mean_box · bilateral · unsharp · median · min_filter · max_filter
artificial-life)alife_gray_scott · alife_turing · alife_life_step · alife_cyclic_ca · alife_curvature_flow · alife_dla · alife_reaction_bz · alife_wolfram1d
*Provenance: ops.py — 2D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*
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