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scotchfaster commented 5 months ago

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Chaos is Creation: evolution in real time

The program and source code is available for download at www.scottschaferenterprises.co­m. This is a simple computer simulation of biological life, ...

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scotchfaster said:

@zeldawind6 C++

• scotchfaster commented 1 year ago

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  Chaos is Creation: evolution in real time

  The program and source code is available for download at www.scottschaferenterprises.co­m. This is a simple computer simulation of biological life, ...

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  scotchfaster said:

  Finally, if all the critter did was spin, it would run out of energy and die, and that would be the end of that instruction set. This happens quite a bit - most mutations are not adaptive.

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  Chaos is Creation: evolution in real time

  The program and source code is available for download at www.scottschaferenterprises.co­m. This is a simple computer simulation of biological life, ...

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  scotchfaster said:

  @4540524 It's doing a little more than that. If you watch it closely, you'll see it travels from somewhere else, while avoiding getting stuck on the X barrier. At 3:17, it uncoils to eat a dot of green food. The spinning is emergent behavior I hadn't anticipated - basically, it allows a critter t...

• scotchfaster commented 1 year ago

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  Chaos is Creation: evolution in real time

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  scotchfaster said:

  @Houshalter - I liked what I've seen of Darwinbots, but I guess I just wasn't patient enough to see emergent behavior evolve. Have you? In any case, my goal with this program was to create something simple enough to be comprehensible (I hope) to a non-programmer, and to the evolutionary skeptic.

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scotchfaster commented 1 year ago

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Karl Sims - Evolved Virtual Creatures, Evolution Simulation, 1994

This video shows results from a research project involving simulated Darwinian evolutions of virtual block creatures. A population of several hundr...

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One of the most impressive programs ever written. Even in 2011, this is still amazing.

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