Evolving types of motion in a simple organism

I wrote a program that would try to simulate a small spring based organism, and then try and make it learn to walk, all by itself, simply by trying different things to first find a set of possible motions, and then refining each of those motions to perfect it. I then take a result of 2 days of computation and analyze it at the end.

The green bars on the left are more for debugging. Basically they show where and when the spring muscles of the organism contract, and how much they contract. Black and White is a strong contraction, gray is small contraction.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• evolving
• motion
• types
• spring
• python
• physics
• simulation

[badmephisto]

sorry if i'm wasting some of my cubing subscribers' time, but i need these videos for my programming blog. (This however was the original purpose of this YouTube account)

[LaurenceTinshield]

For 4 evolved, springy net points they're actually kind cute.

[Nolan3001]

Source code???

[akaKL7]

Would you be so kind to post links to your sources (if they exist online) or any other staff like that coded in Python? And maybe links to forum/blog with some articles on simulation techniques and neural networks programming?

I cant imaging, how to code smth like this, but I'm really interested =)

[akaKL7]

This is awesome =)

Your vids prompted me to start learning Python =0

After C++ & Java it's quite unusual language for me, but it's interesting...

[DoctorDraco]

Python is similar to Java. I don't know much about JavaScript, except that it isn't Java. There might be some similarities, I'm not sure. I would say I am fluent in Java and Python, and I haven't been using Python for more than 3 months. It's easy to pickup if you have prior knowledge in an OOPL.

[joejackjojojo]

This is a cool video! How long did it take you to learn the basics of Python? And is it similar to that of a Java script?

[riffz]

This was really interesting.

[EdurarTe]

what about a sommersault, a backflip xD, a kickflip 180 lol, nice programming, very good AI stuff!!

[badmephisto]

its actually something much better, but it's relatively new (at least compared to java).

It's python. The library used to create visual stuff is called pygame.