The universe is big, beautiful, and probably not simulated, but if anything makes me doubt that, its emergent behaviours.
Emergent behaviours are systems defined by simple rules that produce intricate and often beautifully complex results. A lot of natures incredible feats can be modelled by just a few easily programmable rules!

The example on this page's title screen is called boids (bird-oid objects), it mimicks the behaviour of flocking birds using only 3 simple rules.

      Seperation: Boids steer away from neighbouring Boids that get too close
      Alignment: Boids try to match the speed and direction of their neighbours
      Cohesion: Boids move toward the center of mass of their neighbours

from the formation of spots on animals to the language abilities of chatGPT, hundreds of systems exhibit emergent behaviours. I've compiled a list of the best on the slack channel. If you ship an emergent behaviour, you will get to place pixels (30 X hours tracked on hackatime) on the canvas. As more projects are submitted an "artwork" will #EMERGE. At the end of the event I'll ship everyone the canvas in a poster!