Virtual animals.

    Surfing the Internet, I found a monkey from Sony. This is not quite a virtual animal; it is programmed for a specific behavior.

    But it's not about her. It's about evolving virtual animals.



    The monkey itself.



    Author Carl Sims ( by Karl Sims ) - artist and researcher.

    The idea is to create virtual organisms that evolve in the virtual environment created for them.



    This film demonstrates such creatures. They evolved to perform certain tasks. Creatures consist of several rectangular parallelepipeds connected by the likeness of muscles and with the rudiments of virtual neural networks.

    One of the groups was developed to achieve maximum speed in water. Most creatures are the result of independent evolution. Many of them exhibit behavioral strategies very similar to those we encounter in real life.

    Another group developed to move on the earth's surface with gravity and friction. The simplest consisted of only two parts. Some are helpless, others are pretty playful. One of the creatures from the first group was carried out to land and subjected (and the horror takes!) To evolution. As a result, it learned to crawl sideways. The fastest gallop.

    The third group was learning to jump.

    The fourth was learning to move to a light source. What happened can now be controlled by this source.

    The last group learned to fight for the possession of the green cube. A creature closer to the cube at the end of the simulation is a winner. That is, just get closer and touch the cube. Then one of them learned to block another creature. The second had to learn to overcome this obstacle. Well and so on.

    This product was created in 1994! Second Life, Spore and others appeared later ...

    Unfortunately, the research did not progress very much further. This was mainly due to the financial problems with which the Thinking Machines campaign , in which Karl worked, was pushed .

    Here are a few more examples of work related to this topic.

    Nowadays. True, in my opinion, it looks more like an imitation of the first video (although it could have evolved strongly and all that).



    And further.



    PS Does anyone know anything else on this topic?
    PPS In general, a terrible direction ...;) A

    page dedicated to this www.karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html

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