Evolution - a demonstration

I haven't used it yet but how about adding auto predators aswell, so they will kill the slow ones, if they dont eat they die, they could also reproduce aswell.

gaining traits like being faster, can distinguish between similar colours better so camouflage isnt as effective etc etc.

Good work by the way. Love Evolution. Still can't fully disprove religion but it is a start. :p
 
Haircut said:
The aim isn't to kill them all, it's to see the effects of natural selection.

For instance I started one instance and tried to kill anything that wasn't black.
After a while I ended up with loads of dark creatures which were really fast.

Similarly when I tried to kill the dark ones they became light really quickly, but didn't become much smaller or faster.
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Well it wasn't my aim to kill them all as such. Even if it was, right from the start it is bloody hard to do and if natural selection works as intended, it would only get harder.

I know the model works as I have been playing with it more since and it is quite an achievement. Shame I can't run it on Linux :p
 
Mine went on drugs and did all sorts of crazy stuff :(

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Really want to try this, anyone got any ideas of how to make it work for those of us who get problem loading page errors?
 
Not sure why it's not working for certain people - I've uploaded a version of it here for those who couldn't get it working from my webspace.
http://www.mediafire.com/?1mx7l1jmmxi

I've also got a few new features that I plan on adding to it, including:
Predators in the world (who also evolve)
Food - those that don't get to the food will die
Logging of data to see how the creatures evolve: things like average size, average lifespan etc.
Possibly different genders and breeding based on certain attractiveness criteria?

I just need to get some time to actually work on it!!
 
If i left the black ones and killed the colour ones then should Natrual Selection take its course by not growing anymore coloured ones?
 
Zip said:
If i left the black ones and killed the colour ones then should Natrual Selection take its course by not growing anymore coloured ones?
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If the coloured ones get killed quickly then only the black ones get the chance to reproduce.
These could still produce coloured offspring through mutation, but not as likely as if a coloured one reproduced.
 
The Pat said:
Yea I tried it too. It's not exact to genetics from what I can see or there are tons of mutations. Still a fantastic program though.
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You can change the mutation rate in the XML config file.
By default there is a 60% chance of a mutation happening each time one of them reproduces.
Obviously this is far more than you would see in real life, but it would take days to see anything otherwise!

I can put the source code up if anyone's interested.
At work at the moment, but I'll see if I can remember later.
 
Haircut said:
You can change the mutation rate in the XML config file.
By default there is a 60% chance of a mutation happening each time one of them reproduces.
Obviously this is far more than you would see in real life, but it would take days to see anything otherwise!

I can put the source code up if anyone's interested.
At work at the moment, but I'll see if I can remember later.
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Cheers. Been working on something vaguely (very vaguely!) similar, would like to see how you've implemented it :)
 
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