In Toddler this cellular transmission occurs not in an abstract data space but in real space — the space of the screens — and cells, as they differentiate and are attracted to various points of motion change their local configuration of nearby cells.

On the way to a single, well differentiated organism there can be interesting local maxima—sticking points. Here, for example we have a repeated sub-unit (in red). Th is would appear in Toddler as a group of points mimicking each other’s movement, before one group finally gives way and chooses other points in the underlying motion to follow.

Soon the whole body is represented, but that representation also teeters like a child, especially when the viewer keeps changing the environment by manipulating the screens.