Alife

This is a video of the progress of my digital evolution simulation. The original organism is red and the other organisms are less red the more different they are from the original.

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• alife

[WinstonEwert]

If you look at the 7 second mark. In the top left corner you'll see a string of cells. Heading off to the lop left. These had a mutation where they always picked the same direction. Thus they were able to leave the highly populated area. However, they couldn't handle a broken cell being born in the line.

[WinstonEwert]

Each "pixel" is a "cell". Each "cell" has a list of instructions that it follows. I believe the initial program was something like: Pick a random direction, produce a new cell in that direction, send a copy of dna in that direction, and then kickstart the new cell.

Nothing interesting actually happened. While a few mutations did take hold, they were neutral, with no actual affect on the result.

[sevenclev]

How exactly does this simulation work?