Evolution - a demonstration

I like it and the concept is brilliant. Develop it further into an automatic system, so each one preys on the others. Get it into a format that is easily understood and followed and introduce AI algorithms like search and evade, base defense perhaps and pathfinding around dangerous animals. It would take a while but its perhaps worth working on :).

For now, perhaps use bounding circle collision detection instead of box.
 
I killed off all the dark ones, and then all of the circles. And then the slow ones. And then the small ones. Now i have light coloured fast moving ovals :) ( Oh and i killed off the jittery ones! )

I'm guessing some will have returned by the time i've finished writing this though.

Awesome little script/programme!

Definately incorporate some more into it :)

Those white ones are so hard to kill!

( EDIT: Ok...it took about a minute of me not monitoring it and went from about 10 ovals to a hundred :p )
 
yer_averagejoe said:
I like it and the concept is brilliant. Develop it further into an automatic system, so each one preys on the others. Get it into a format that is easily understood and followed and introduce AI algorithms like search and evade, base defense perhaps and pathfinding around dangerous animals. It would take a while but its perhaps worth working on :).

For now, perhaps use bounding circle collision detection instead of box.
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It is an AI algorithm (to be specific, an evolutionary algorithm).
 
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!
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Yea that may help, the thing I was thinking about is that you wipe out a certain characteristic and then it just mutates back straight away.
 
For those that were interested the code is available here:
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The Pat said:
Yea that may help, the thing I was thinking about is that you wipe out a certain characteristic and then it just mutates back straight away.
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Well, the mutations are random so you can never truly stop something mutating again.
It's probably more obvious in my demo as there are only a few things that can mutate so it seems like the same thing is happening over and over again.
 


Towards the end I realised I was picking the dark large ones regardless of their speed, so I was left with a load of small, lightly coloured yet slow ones.

Interesting :)
 
Shrinking the window contains all the dots to a tiny area making it easy to wipe them all out. I, the prey, evolved and out-smarted them! :p
 
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