Polyworld - Foraging & Swarming

"The last decent quality video from a run of the original incarnation of Polyworld, and by far the most interesting. By this stage, the individual agent behaviors have ceased to be one-dimensional; i.e., I can no longer sum up the total life behavior of all agents in the simulation with a single word or phrase. Here we see agents foraging—orbiting food while they eat it, despite there being nothing built in to attract them to food. And a swarm of small agents that stay together, which is good for finding mates, even as the swarm drifts along, which is good for finding food. Look around the world, at the range of behaviors. The population is sustaining itself with its mating behaviors, staying right at the maximum population limit, yet it is no longer obvious what the full range of behaviors is. The next step, then, is to develop the statistical and information theoretical tools to quantify these behaviors and neural architecture and dynamics of the Polyworld agents, which is what my modern research agenda is all about."

From: http://www.beanblossom.in.us/larryy/PolyworldMovies.html

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• polyworld
• foraging
• swarming
• alife
• simulation

[FiresOfOrc]

The amazing power of emergence!

Good video.

[alienjazzcat]

Emergence is everything.. cool as hell

[brutaka359]

What's so amazing and scary? I don't get it.

[RAZEAN55]

how you run this in windows

[inthefade]

I like that you seperated the world into diferent environments. That is something that a lot of virtual creature evolution software forgets or doesn't bother with.

[damnsrm]

very interesting, and a little scary.