Flip Me Over - Evolved Virtual Creature

[azafreak]

How did you record each individual frame?

[pythor2]

1:11 reminds me of high school graduation

[Bloodmage1337]

I love all your videos ^^ but have you ever considered applying these creatures to say, a full sized, procedurally generated virtual world, like say infinity universe? I would love to see how they evolve if they had food to compete for, energy and the ability to hear or smell or even see. What if you even applied virtual flora to the world that grew with sunlight and evolved similarly? I think this could be very interesting to watch change as a world over time.

[kjlg74]

@Bloodmage1337 Thanks a lot! :)

I totally agree. I think a full virtual ecology, so to speak, would be much more interesting. I just wouldn't be able to get away with it using the current system - it would just take *way* too much processing time to be worth it. My videos with many many creatures at once are misleading. When I'm recording them, they're almost at a slide-show pace. I speed them up to normal speed afterward. Still, maybe in few years, who knows! Moore's Law, etc ;)

[menue4real]

@kjlg74 Moore's Law is dead, isn't it ? :(

[Savaril]

The second one reminds me of an inch worm.

[BeekersSqueakers]

The music fits nicely.

[derekkoch123]

weird this video get s commetns a year agon... then none for a few months and now some more >.>

well anyway this video is the one that made me want too download the program :D

[latteanka]

You should call the first one ``Spring crab``

[AtlasRedux]

How many gens and size of population?

First one got some abilities that seems to have taken some time.

[kjlg74]

If I recall correctly, this one was a population size of 100. The first 150 generations used a fitness function based on jumping height and a very short evaluation time. That was followed by 450 generations for traversing rough terrain, with a longer evaluation time.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

Probably the oddest creature I've seen yet.

Very nice!

[Tailslol]

lol yea i like this one

[kjlg74]

Me too! I think I'll add this one to the favorites list.

[newcoleco]

I don't know for you, but the first one remembers me an important period in my life, it's when me and my friends have got our diplomas. ;-)

[kjlg74]

:D I was very tempted to name this one "Graduation Hat" for exactly that reason.