EAL: Evolving Artificial Life

[Ultimape]

It looks like there may be some aliasing due to the order that decisions are checked against It seems like most of the movement defaults to the upper right. Shouldn't the simulation not have a preference?

[pbazant]

Great program! I am interested in getting a copy of it, if possible. Is the brain of the organisms Turing-complete? I have written an evolutionary simulator called Evoversum: see watch?v=nPkZvyVDWJU

[vamori]

Is there a download for this? it sounds awesome.

[ehsanul]

this was a captivating watch.. i should really try to make an a-life program of my own.

[kjlg74]

Thanks!

Yeah, absolutely, give it a try. They're fun to program and fun to watch. If you have any luck with it, and if you post a video animation, please let me know. I'm always interested to check out new ALife and evolutionary computing stuff on youtube :)

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

Hmm, interesting.

You may have just inspire me to make a version of this myself. Although I'm not sure If I will do as well as you. I will definitely try some new commands and maybe make the creatures more versatile.

Also with the idea I have I might make it so you can look into the creature genome and see what its all about.

I at least hope to copy this. Although I think I'll do mine top view, no climbing just chasing. But more pixely. :D

[kjlg74]

Good luck! There's nothing overly complex or fancy in EAL, so the chances of duplicating it (not the the letter, of course, but in essence) are good. Plus, without the constant flood-fill-style algorithm I used to do the gravity stuff, yours should run faster as well.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

"yours should run faster as well."

I doubt it since the thing I used to code isn't exactly wired for speed :/

But thanks for the encouragement. :D

[kjlg74]

:D Oh. Well, just keep shrinking the grid until it runs at a good speed. This one is 50x50, I think. Come to think of it, that's minuscule :P I should try 1000x1000 sometime. It would run about 400 times slower, but if I ran it for 24hrs I'd get a 3.5 min clip... ah, but I have no time for that. At some point, though.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

LOL

I have time to record something for you ;)

Also I could get a first hand look at it, but if you would rather do it yourself I understand. :D

[kjlg74]

(sorry if this is a duplicate comment - the previous one didn't show up).

I'll send you the code :)

[closedmouth]

cdk007 would love this