Biomorphs
Learning and science
artificial life simulation
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How HN took it
3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and neat demo of Dawkins' biomorphs
From 3 comments
Neat! I also liked some of the other Javascript demos on this site, like http://www.emergentmind.com/elementary-cellular-automata . Heres's also a fun little video of vintage…
taliesinb on HNLove it! I wrote a small script that evolves them based on a scoring function, paste in your console and run evolve(1000, score) ``` function evolve(numGenerations, scoringFn,…
rwinn on HNthis reminds me of W. Latham https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=BE&v=AN6ngsckRZs
wiz21 on HN
Objections
Biomorphs become too large for the canvas and could be clicked into oversize shapes
From 1 comment
Anyone else keep converging to this shape? https://i.imgur.com/aI0zDw9.png
percentcer on HN
Requests
Add a reverse or undo button to store previous generations
From 2 comments
Very cool! Can you implement a reverse button to store the last few sets? I notice that sometimes there is a mutation that shows up in all the offspring at once.
madengr on HNThis is really cool. Somebody already asked for a reverse button, how about a way to playback the evolutionary history of your biomorph (animated)?
duffdevice on HN
Playback of evolutionary history as animation
From 1 comment
This is really cool. Somebody already asked for a reverse button, how about a way to playback the evolutionary history of your biomorph (animated)?
duffdevice on HN
Test whether biomorphs evolve to attract bees
From 1 comment
I vaguely remember in Dawkins' book that he said he was going to put a touch-sensitive screen near some flowers to see if any of the biomorphs would attract bees. The idea was…
auton1 on HN
Questions
Are these creations manipulations of binary trees?
From 1 comment
Are these creations manipulations of binary trees?
NAFV_P on HN
Alternatives named
Avida artificial life simulator
From 1 comment
By the way, anyone who is new to the whole artificial life area should also take a look at Chris Adami's Avida: video [0], site [1]. Some Nature papers even came out of it, e.g.…
taliesinb on HN
Darwinbots
From 1 comment
I used to be really into artificial life simulations. Here are some directories to tons of projects like that. You will need to use web archive for a good deal of this stuff…
Houshalter on HN
Elementary cellular automata demo on emergentmind
From 1 comment
Neat! I also liked some of the other Javascript demos on this site, like http://www.emergentmind.com/elementary-cellular-automata . Heres's also a fun little video of vintage…
taliesinb on HN