taliesinb/floatworld

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Floatworld is an artificial life environment in which virtual creatures compete for space and energy. Each creature is controlled by a neural network and harvests energy in order to reproduce. Random mutation and natural selection result in the evolution of different strategies.

3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2011-07-03 · latest 2016-07-15

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Cool. I used to be big into artificial life. An old project of mine for anyone who is interested: https://github.com/taliesinb/floatworld/wiki
comment by taliesinb · 2016-07-15 · in Show HN: A genetic simulator for artificial life
…http://avida-ed.msu.edu/ [2] http://adamilab.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Reprints/2003/Len... [3] https://github.com/taliesinb/floatworld/wiki [4] https://github.com/taliesinb/spatial-game-theory/wiki [5]…
comment by taliesinb · 2014-05-30 · in Show HN: Richard Dawkins’ Biomorphs Implemented in JavaScript
…is pretty cool. I have a similar artificial life experiment that goes by the name "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…
comment by taliesinb · 2011-07-03 · in Nanopond: Artificial Life VM