Stumble & Twitch - Evolved Virtual Creature

Population size 30, roughly 2000 generations.
3DVCE is free to download on the web:
http://www.stellaralchemy.com/lee/virtual_creatures.html

A bit of a music break from the normal this time. The music is neither from incompetech nor audionautix. I heard this music on a video from YouTuber OGjimbo and thought it was pretty cool (I'm a sucker for just about anything with an electronic voice in it). Here's a link to the artist's page:
http://www.professorkliq.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 3D
• virtual
• creature
• evolution
• genetic
• algorithm
• programming
• simulation
• physics
• artificial
• life
• intelligence
• software
• fitness
• graphics
• population
• animation
• adaptation
• generations
• computation
• morphology

[kjlg74]

@MrStripyHead Only the high-jump and the sprint :)

[MrStripyHead]

can they play sports?

[kjlg74]

@belliebum12 lol, yeah. Same here :)

[belliebum12]

This creature reminds me of 95% of the creatures I've evolved. -__-

[kjlg74]

@bubinasuit Yes, it's one of the most common strategies that seem to arise. Good suggestion - I ought to reduce the limit imposed on the amount of torque their servo motors are permitted to exert, or at least make it something the user can set. That might promote more interesting forms of locomotion.

[bubinasuit]

Ive been playing around with your program for a while and Ive noticed that most of the creatures use this twitchy jump technique. Could i suggest having a "smoothness of travel" parameter? This might reduce the amount of "twitchy jumpers".