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The 8 hour visualization is fascinating to watch. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4775386042852459808 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4775386042

• taliesinb 15y ago
  Yeah this is pretty cool. I have a similar artificial life experiment that goes by the name "floatworld" (https://github.com/taliesinb/floatworld https://github.com/taliesinb/floatworld). The curse of all these kinds of alife experiments is the how many parameters they have. It's hard to conclude anything when there are 200 dimensions to one's model.
  • geuis 15y ago
    I'm an interested novice in this field. Would it perhaps be possible to do some genetic algorithms on the starting parameters themselves? I'm not sure how the fitness rules would be set, but it could be based around number of life forms, speciation rate, or maybe if humans viewing the results of each run preferred certain sets more than others?
• sorbus 15y ago
  > What would it take to get this running under OS X? Getting it running on Linux is as simple as throwing the source at GCC (with the -lSDL flag), so in theory it would probably be a similar level of difficulty on OS X, if you already have everything you need to compile programs. I don't have access to a Mac to test this on, though.