Scriptbots: Evolutionary Artificial Life Simulation of Predator-Prey dynamics

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Post by bekirdag » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 7:38 AM UTC

This guy, Andrej Karpathy (http://karpathy.ca/) made an enormous job an built an open source artificial life simulation, which is very successful and focused correct variables among the other similar projects.

Scriptbots: Evolutionary Artificial Life Simulation of Predator-Prey dynamics
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Re: Scriptbots: Evolutionary Artificial Life Simulation of Predator-Prey dynamics

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Post by jeffool » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 7:54 AM UTC

Very neat; reminds me of http://swimbots.com, which focuses more on locomotion and the evolution of locomotion. But still, nice.

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Post by libria » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 8:58 AM UTC

The clip showing hunting pack behavior, http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=RjweUYtpNq4&t=3m17s, really makes them come alive, almost like they'll run off the page. Chilling. Reminds me of George Martin's "Sandkings" (don't go to Wikipedia, read the full story).

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Post by bekirdag » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 10:08 AM UTC

Since this is open source, i think this could be a good start to build a way more complex artificial world, like three dimensions, similar earth conditions (temperature, wind, terrain specifications etc.)

I think the main point to build such an artificial world is to give a start of the life of a creature, which surprises it's own creators with it's behaviors.