ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program • Hacker News Board

Re: ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

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Post by ChicagoBoy11 » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 1:42 PM UTC

For folks who like this sort of thing, I will once again make my monthly plug for folks to check out "The Evolution of Cooperation", by Robert Axelrod.

Re: ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

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Post by nimbius » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 1:44 PM UTC

>To build alien you need Microsoft Visual Studio 2019.

no thanks.

Re: ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

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Post by gimmemahlulz » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 1:48 PM UTC

I have no experience with CUDA, is it possible to run this on a normal PC with a 1080ti?

I've tried, the program runs but I cant step the simulation even once.

Re: ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

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Post by divs1210 » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 1:55 PM UTC

This is awesome! Seems very interesting and looks beautiful! Will definitely give it a try!

Re: ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

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Post by gmadsen » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 1:55 PM UTC

gimmemahlulz wrote: post #33

I have no experience with CUDA, is it possible to run this on a normal PC with a 1080ti? I've tried, the program runs but I cant step the simulation even once.

install cuda drivers. a 1080ti supports cuda

Re: ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

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Post by sackerhews » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 1:59 PM UTC

danielvf wrote: post #8

Reminds me of my favorite programming game that no one has heard of: http://grobots.sourceforge.net (Old video of grobots in action at https://youtu.be/BLXKedZHls4?t=801 ) Alien looks awesome!

This is why I like reading the comments on HN. I'd never heard of Grobots, it's brilliant!

Re: ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

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Post by buescher » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 2:00 PM UTC

danielvf wrote: post #8

Reminds me of my favorite programming game that no one has heard of: http://grobots.sourceforge.net (Old video of grobots in action at https://youtu.be/BLXKedZHls4?t=801 ) Alien looks awesome!

Grobots looks like RobotWar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSdCtxN96_o

Re: ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

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Post by ry4nolson » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 2:01 PM UTC

This reminds me of a reddit r/nosleep story, "The Life in the Machine"

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/u7zc2/the_life_in_...

Re: ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

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Post by pjmlp » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 2:06 PM UTC

tormeh wrote: post #20

xwdv wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who else is there… AMD?

Also Intel. Being Nvidia-only is not very good from an accessibility point-of-view. It means that only ML researchers and about 60% of gamers can run this.

And most people in Hollywood using rendering engines like Optix.

Re: ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program

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Post by nynx » Fri, Jun 11, 2021, 2:07 PM UTC

abra0 wrote: post #25

>The Autoverse is an artificial life simulator based on a cellular automaton complex enough to represent the substratum of an artificial chemistry. It is deterministic, internally consistent and vaguely resembles real chemistry. Tiny environments, simulated in the Autoverse and filled with populations of a simple, designed lifeform, Autobacterium lamberti, are maintained by a community of enthusiasts obsessed with ge…

What a coincidence, I just reread that section of permutation city yesterday.

I wonder if there is an efficient cellular automata that vaguely approximates the behavior of real chemistry, just like the autoverse.

It's a shame the garden eden configuration plot point is kind of bunk.