Watch your computer learn to design a new "car"...

Tomsk · 17 Feb 2011 at 17:11

LizardKing said:
238 generations later, the best my cars can go is 962.6 on the hills. Though the history suggests its gone further?

I think the red line is the maximum distance for the course and the black line is an average for the generation.

Dogbreath · 17 Feb 2011 at 17:15

I left mine running for two days and the design of the cars peaked at a fairly early generation then tailed off again and stayed poor.

Malt_Vinegar · 17 Feb 2011 at 17:18

I left mine for 100+ generations, and it was still carp

lordrobs · 18 Feb 2011 at 16:09

I just tried this on the terrain that is simply a ramp of increasing steepness and with that you really see some logical progression as you go through the generations. The others did tend to peak early and then go a bit random.

LizardKing · 21 Feb 2011 at 11:18

600 generations later on the hills, 11 of my cars reach 1013.2, 0.8 off the world record! :eek:

The hill is a fraction to steep to climb up.

I think it will just end up with 20 cars reaching the exact same point eventually.

Morba · 21 Feb 2011 at 11:33

mine does nothing. spawns some shapes with some wheels and thats it.

bam0 · 21 Feb 2011 at 11:39

Morba said:
mine does nothing. spawns some shapes with some wheels and thats it.

It takes quite a while to generate something useful, it's not really something you sit and watch, just leave it running somewhere for a few hours and see what you get.

Firestar_3x · 21 Feb 2011 at 12:35

After 10 generations mine turned out with something that looked like an F1 car, it has a chunky rear wheel, spoiler, low chassi and front wheel with low front lip, wasn't half bad either!

Steeps · 21 Feb 2011 at 16:07

Up to generation 317 (pc crashed so lost 150) and I've had 3 cars make it to 1013.6 in 1min58. Taken so many generations as it love spawning cars upside down.

Cosimo · 21 Feb 2011 at 16:14

Won't be a best seller:

lordrobs · 25 Feb 2011 at 16:32

They have updated this now. Has a figure for torque on the page which I assume is just another variable to throw into the mix... oh and the cars can actually break now

Nothing quite like shedding a bit of weight as you go down the track

Oh and their are two more terrains but I haven't tried them yet.