Karl SimsEvolved Virtual Creatures (1994)
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Uploaded by liquidmemory on Nov 27, 2006
This narrated computer animation shows results from a research project involving simulated Darwinian evolutions of virtual block creatures. A population of several hundred creatures is created within a supercomputer, and each creature is tested for their ability to perform a given task, such the ability to swim in a simulated water environment. The successful survive, and their virtual genes containing coded instructions for their growth, are copied, combined, and mutated to make offspring for a new population. The new creatures are again tested, and some may be improvements on their parents. As this cycle of variation and selection continues, creatures with more and more successful behaviors can emerge.
The creatures shown are results the final products from many independent simulations in which they were selected for swimming, walking, jumping, following, and competing for control of a green cube.
Director: Karl Sims
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F*ck you yellow block
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The fitness function itself can be evolved based on a more abstract fitness function such as stay alive.
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Mentioned in D. Hofstadter's 'I am a strange loop'' in a paragraph in chapter 4 about the dangers of teleology
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microtorrent
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they 'learn' from an algorithm based on a certain fitness
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My favorite is at 1:05. {;D}=
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It is possible. Mind blowing eh :)
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how very strange... do these creatures learn?
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well at least I have more time to save more money to buy a better computer lol
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"..with appropriate gestures.." lol
holyhell5050 3 years ago 7
i love this, they're just some boxes but because of their movement, they appear like cute little animals. and yeah, i'd like to see a new version of this made today, too. :)
tbrtbrtbr 4 years ago 5