VOLVE 5.0
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ALIFE: Status Report
July 28th 2007The current "one-year-of-alife" simulation looks good to me. The population is right where I like it to be (more than 1,000 and less than 3,000). The creatures have nice fluid motion and are small blobs. They seem to exhibit some rudimentary evasion and hunting routines. And best of all this is a sexual simulation. Overall I am happy with this new simulation (knock on wood; funny if todays sim died out or some other similar tradgedy)
Evolve 4.0 Server
July 17th 2007I am thinking of creating an Evolve4 server. It will be a special kind of batch simulation which allows new creatures to be added at any time, and snapshots/statistics of the current simulation to be obtained at anytime. It will allow multiple strand. An unlimited number of strands - not just 8. The idea is to let users submit a KFORTH creature and see how it does in the always running Evolve4 ecosystem. It would combine the qualities of darwinbots FTP server and the technosphere project. This Evolve4 Server would allow more people to test out thier hand written KFORTH (or evolve KFORTH) to see how great (or sucky) the creatures are. Special servers could be started up for regular competitions, etc... The "One Year of Alife" would become a special case of this server mechanims.
one year of alife restarted
July 17th 2007one year of alife restarted. sim is bigger 1500 x 1000 and has less barriers and has a little more energy than before. This one has a larger population (1,500) instead of the previous one which had barely 400 organisms.
The Evolve 4.0 Discsussion Group
July 8th 2007Using google groups, I created a discussion group for the Evolve 4.0 software. It's not as fancy as the Invision board, but its free! Here's the access link: [url=http://groups.google.com/group/evolve-40-discussion]http://groups.google.com/group/evolve-40-discussion[/url] My thanks to 'scood' for the idea. It looks like google groups lets us handle stuff like file uploads etc... Let's make this as good as the previous forum was. Cheers, Ken
One Year of Alife Restarted
July 5th 2007I restarted the "1 year of alife" simulation. The previous simulation ran for 200 days and gave boring results. But that's good. Any result is a good result. I have been playing with XY simulations (sexual reproduction), and have restarted the project using the XY sim mode. By "boring" I mean the simulation lacked the variety of creatures. And also over time the behaviors of the creatures didn't seem to get smarter (they stayed the same for months). There could be several reasons for this. One reason is the simple 2-dimensional grid may not offer much room for intellegent behavior. So the creatures that evolved were probably highly optimal for this kind of simple world. Another reason could be the asexual reproduction is too slow??? I don't know. Anyway, this new simulation will show the difference between a sexually reproducing ecosystem from an asexual one.
Evolve 4.8e released
July 1st 2007A new version of evolve has been released. The only change is the merge operation for sexual reproduction has been changed. A random bit string is selected and this controls which parent donates the code block(s) to the offspring. In previous versions and odd/even scheme was used. New new method has been shown to result in much better XY simulations, which are more stable and give interesting creatures.
Evolve 4.0 Forum Closed
July 1st 2007I didn't renew my Invision board and so the Evolve forum is no longer in existence. I just want to thank all those who participated. Your feedback and comments helped make Evolve a better program. I really enjoyed the discussions, unfortunately the time and cost involved were too much for me. Please use email or this blogs comments to continue any discussions regarding evolve4.0
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