Artificial Life V001

Artificial Life experiment 001 using Cellular Automata. Starting with a single cell the Automata replicates a new cell into a selected position by evaluating the population of cells active in the immediate neighborhood. The program has only 2 cell types and a few different render states indicating the current condition of each cell.

The System displays emergent behavior and the capacity for Universal Computation. Each cell type requires the other cell type to be active in its local 8 cell neighborhood in order to replicate. A mutual dependency then develops in the system producing incredible emergent behavior.

The Automata code was written in "processing software", an open source JAVA programming environment.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Artificial
• Life
• Cellular
• Automata
• Sentient
• Machine
• living
• program
• Emergence
• Emergent
• intelligence
• AI
• CA
• Games

[steffanp88]

What is the fitness function of the organism?

[SentientMachines]

@steffanp88

These examples are samples from a large sequence space of potential outcomes in a cellular automata program I developed 2 years ago, designed to help me explore cellular self organization.

Each example shows the result of subtle variations in the program parameters. The exploration of the sequence space was done randomly involving no genetic programming or fitness function, the parameters where randomly changed, rendered and the results studied.

[jsadecki1]

where did you get the program to do this and can get it ?

[jessyjessy4]

great video thanks

[khijasmith]

great video thanks

[MrBrucebracey]

brilliant video

[SuperDogbrown]

you have some great stuff here

[thegeffc]

Very enjoyable thank you

[snypa514]

@steffanp88 I don't think cellular automata have fitness functions. Instead they use simple rules which dictate their individual behaviour depending on their state, and the state of cells in their surrounding area. They can move or replicate in a certain direction, persist, change state, or die.

I'm no expert so I don't know if I covered everything...

[jarblewarble]

Put this in a video game... it'd sell over a million copies, I'll bet.