100x Gravity Snail - Evolved Virtual Creature

[iamsandwich]

smart one



[MediaFilter]

Happy Snails!

[ScientificExploits]

Why did they evolve shells?

[manrayer88]

I hope one day we can have all these creatures evolving in a minecraft-like world we can explore

[kjlg74]

@manrayer88 Me too! It could be quite fun to explore such a world. Maybe one day.

[ratelslangen]

@manrayer88 you can mod them!!! theres a programm. you must place the blocks in the right place and add the movements

[ehhhhhhhhhh]

Love this one.

[WhisperShift]

@klg74 What would be awesome is if eventually you could not only take energy consumption into account, but have little energy cubes available, such as having lots of low-value energy cubes easier to get with higher value cubes harder to reach. You could then see if they evolve methods to harvest small cubes quickly or work harder to get the high value cubes. (ie grazing vs hunting). Creature that has the highest energy stores in the end wins.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

honestly, I wish twitching as a form of movement could be prevented :(

Hell, I think I've tinkered around with servo speed, and that only seemed to make it a little less common :|

[kjlg74]

@TheReasonWhyGuy I agree. I think your suggestion about taking energy consumption into account might be the best way to thwart it.

[Yumminess0]

Fitting music.

[SangerZonvolt]

How do you put multiple creatures at once on the field?

[Savaril]

They look like rocks!

[FormicHiveQueen]

How do you change the gravity setting? I only know how to turn it on or off.

[Zetimenvec]

my guess would be you have to change some settings manually, not sure how to do that, maybe there's an ini file?

there is a txt file that lists constants, maybe it's in there?

[Yumminess0]

lol when you made a bunch some fell over but they didnt die, which is surprising =D I wonder how many times as much gravity than usual they can resist? Also, do they actually walk in normal gravity? it would be proof as to whether it moves on its own or not. well... I dont think it could move at 100x gravity even if it could at normal gravity, now that I think about it...

[kjlg74]

The user who made this creatures also tried to put gravity as high as he could. I still have a creature or two from him, meant for even higher gravity. Eventually I'll record and post those. With gravity this high, I think movement has almost nothing to do with muscles (well, servo motors), and is all about "abuse" of the physics engine.

[shanedk]

I guess these guys are the Sontarans of the virtual creature world...

[kjlg74]

well, they are all clones ;)

[piplupsingularity]

@shanedk

SONTAR HA!

[klasop]

they are cute!

[inthefade]

neat. I wonder what would happen if you evolved 500 generations of this in regular gravity now.

[kjlg74]

The .creature file is saved (and posted on the web), so this could always be attempted at some point.

[newcoleco]

Can we conclude, based on this simulation, that if there is a planet bigger than the Earth, and about 50 times the gravity of the Earth, life can exist in a variety of forms, not only bacteria and viruses, they reproduce and evolve because it's what life do.(?)

[kjlg74]

I don't think any really specific conclusions can be drawn, but that life can handle really extreme conditions is a pretty safe bet, especially considering the various 'extremophiles' found here on Earth.

[shanedk]

I remember one video of Thunderf00t's where he mentioned that gravity was not a factor in any of the equations for biological evolution. So theoretically, life could evolve in a high- or low-gravity environment, it would just mean that, like everything else, it would have to evolve a good balance between the advantages and the costs.

[newcoleco]

Very interesting video you are pointing out.

The gravity specification in this simulation will simply generate different strategies to maximize the chance of surviving (best fit) the conditions.

So, I suppose the conclusion is the diversity of life is only limited on the solutions they develop to support the conditions. And then, life is possible in some places we didn't think possible yet, which increase the number of possible planets with life.

[Yumminess0]

well, I'd say so, considering the deep oceans with hundreds of thousands of times more pressure than the air we breath is full of life. they survive by matching their body pressure with the sea. speaking of which, scientists were baffled when the first deep sea fish exploded when the recovered it! it was because its inside pressure still matched the deep sea pressure. so its kind of like a balloon being filled too much and popping.

[Gn0meSlice]

Interesting point, except we aren't talking about pressure here. As far as I know, there is no such thing as air in this program. This is a result of extreme gravity, which really has nothing to do with pressure.