Scriptbots: Evolutionary Artificial Life Simulation of Predator-Prey dynamics (sites.google.com)

13 points by bekirdag 14y ago ↗ HN

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.

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jeffool 14y ago ↗

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

libria 14y ago ↗

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).

bekirdag 14y ago ↗

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.