This sounds fascinating! In HPC environments how do the images communicate -- I'm just assuming there's some form of distributed computing going on there?
Yes, either Alan Kay's Croquet [1] with manycore parallel extensions or David Ungar's RoarVM [2].
Contact me for the much nicer demo's, videos and scientific papers.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXGLOiZUZ2U
[2] https://www.slideshare.net/gron/sly-and-the-roarvm-exploring...