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

[megakid]

http://www.boxcar2d.com/

A learning algorithm that rewards based on distance travelled (and speed I presume)...

Mine always ends up with some one wheeled monster. Though in one generation it mutated from a 1 wheeler to having 6 wheels

Thought this might interest a few...

 

[tigerstyle]

funny

 

[eXist]

pretty cool

 

[ajstan]

lol, this would make a great screensaver

 

[Overlag]

well i dont think my computer will be designing cars anytime soon LOL

 

[Janesy B]

You have to let it run for a while then it'll start designing ones that actually work.

 

[Overlag]

You have to let it run for a while then it'll start designing ones that actually work.

yeh i know, they getting better.

i once had a app that did the evolution on trying to make boxes walk or jump as far as they could. Could leave it running for days before it got good results, then you would decide to change the goals and those creatures would have to adapt all over again. Cool process, but some people just think god made us.....


damn it pauses when you are not watching it

 

[Irish_Tom]

You have to let it run for a while then it'll start designing ones that actually work.

I was going to say. Certainly didn't seem to 'learn' anything over the minute or so I gave it. Kept giving me triangles with a single wheel sticking in the air.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Generation 4 has been a large downward step here... It's interesting to watch though.

 

[Overlag]

Generation 4 has been a large downward step here... It's interesting to watch though.

i think the cars got better, the terrain just got impossible. But evolution goes through downward steps too.... im sure it will bounce back... im gona leave this running for a long while i think. Shame it has to be in view, and doesn't run in the backround

 

[russ0r]

i think the cars got better, the terrain just got impossible. But evolution goes through downward steps too.... im sure it will bounce back... im gona leave this running for a long while i think. Shame it has to be in view, and doesn't run in the backround

Runs in the background here on Chrome. Just open it in a separate window.

It's pretty interesting to watch. If you read the 'best cars' page it tells you that it once evolved a car that broke the simulation and got maximum score in a few seconds. Kinda cool

 

[Overlag]

Runs in the background here on Chrome. Just open it in a separate window.

oooh i should have tried that one. Thank you

 

[Dogbreath]

You need to notch up the mutation rate setting for a first couple of generations until you get a reasonable useful design.

 

[Gilly]

Mine isn't learning very well :/

Gen 3 and it can't get up the 617 hill.

 

[rpstewart]

You're doing better than me! I haven't been able to get past 548 and it's at Gen 10

 

[Vonhelmet]

Cool process, but some people just think god made us.....

Easy enough to make things evolve when you give it defined goals and defined steps by which it can evolve.

Not arguing against evolution, just saying that examples like this don't really show evolution in the true sense that we see in nature.

 

[Overlag]

cant get past 905.9, Gen 17 lol. They are all getting close though, not many bad ones so my average is going up. Soon something will get past it.

 

[Gilly]

Gen 8 and things haven't progressed much :/

 

[Gilly]

#0 : 617.9 (0:55)
#1 : 617.6 (0:57)
#2 : 616 (0:58)
#3 : 614.5 (1:26)
#4 : 66.8 (0:13)
#5 : 197.9 (0:29)
#6 : 615.7 (0:58)
#7 : 0.1 (0:02)
#8 : 3.4 (0:02)
#9 : 575.9 (0:58)
#10 : 392.3 (0:34)
#11 : 114.3 (0:16)
#12 : 118.3 (0:13)
#13 : 617.9 (0:55)
#14 : 524.3 (0:47)
#15 : 616.5 (1:09)
#16 : 614.3 (0:56)


Still Gen 8, still trying to use the same shapes with the same outcome.

 

[Overlag]

yup, mine is well and truely stuck @ 905.9-906.4