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Wanted to give a shot out to Larry Yeager who wrote software for this all the way back in the mid nineties : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyworld https://en.
by jdonaldson 5y ago
Wanted to give a shot out to Larry Yeager who wrote software for this all the way back in the mid nineties : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyworld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyworld
He was a professor of mine in grad school, he also did visual effects for The Last Starfighter, and the early work on character recognition in the Apple Newton. Cool dude.
- ehsankia 5y agoAlso relevant is Karl Sims' Evolving Virtual Creatures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgG_VSP7f8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgG_VSP7f8 Not sure how they're connected, but I remember being obsessed with that paper and actually recreating it in 2D as a grad project.
- jordibc 5y agoYes, cool dude indeed! Glad you mention him, I was thinking of him when I saw this article. He visited the group where I was doing my PhD many years ago and also gave a fantastic talk on evolution, learning, and artificial life -- I was quite impressed. He has some cool stuff in his website too (http://shinyverse.org/larryy/ http://shinyverse.org/larryy/).
- carbonguy 5y agoContinuing the thread of other individuals who've done interesting work in this area, I've always been a huge fan of Jeffrey Ventrella's "Gene Pool": http://www.swimbots.com/genepool/ http://www.swimbots.com/genepool/ His fractal art is quite compelling as well: http://www.ventrella.com/ http://www.ventrella.com/