ASAL demonstrates its potential across various ALife substrates, including Boids, Particle Life, Game of Life, Lenia, and Neural Cellular Automata. By employing ASAL, the researchers uncovered previously unknown lifeforms and extended the frontier of emergent structures in ALife simulations. Beyond discovery, ASAL’s framework facilitates quantitative analysis of traditionally qualitative phenomena, mirroring human-like methods to measure complexity. Crucia