Red Pepper - Evolved Virtual Creature

[lardhat]

What was the parameter of success here? Altitude?

[kjlg74]

If I recall correctly, this one was evolved for a while to maximize jumping height, and then switch to travel distance. That mix seems to lead to these sorts of creatures that move in random directions fairly often.

[lardhat]

Oh, thanks.

Do you ever put them to compete directly against each other? In the same environment, i mean.

[kjlg74]

No, but it's something I'm very much itching to do. Some kind of one-on-one competition - maybe a kind of creature sumo wrestling!

[lardhat]

I'll be looking forward to seeing that.

I guess predation would be very complicated in this type of simulation, right?

[kjlg74]

Hmmm... predation might not be too bad. Population A (call them the "prey") can be rewarded in proportion to the distance they keep from an individual in population B (call them "predators"), and predators can be rewarded with some inverse-proportion (or something) of the distance they keep from an individual prey. Each individual could be evaluated against the best individual in the other population. That should work, I think, provided I implement a sense "organ" for detecting other creatures.

[kjlg74]

Maybe "predation" wouldn't quite be the right word - it would be some some sort of "pursuit" / "evasion" co-evolution.

[Asurnasurpal]

From what I understand, most Earth life evolved as flailing worms until the Cambian, perhaps you should try and find what caused the explosion? Just a sudgestion.