Darwin@Home

[Stephen Guerin]

Biota.org is back up and promoting Darwin@Home.
        http://www.darwinathome.org/mission/index.html

Some familiar Alife applications are adapting to it:

  - Fluidium: Gerald De Jong's "tensegrity" structures. Nice example of JOGL
and webstart
        I believe Owen passed around a link 6 months ago:
http://fluidiom.sourceforge.net/

  - SodaBot -> SodaRace

  - Larry Yaeger's PolyWorld

  - More at: http://www.darwinathome.org/teams/index.html

-Steve

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[Russell Standish]

I'm glad someone is doing this, and I wish them well, however I don't
rate their chances of success terribly highly. The problem of
open-ended evolution is more than just providing sufficiently rich
environment, and for now I think more progress can be made studying
simpler systems to tease out the relevant factors, and to hone
metrics.

For example, Tierra's version of this experiment (NetTierra) was
essentially a failure.

                                 Cheers

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:27:13AM -0700, Stephen Guerin wrote:

> Biota.org is back up and promoting Darwin@Home.
> http://www.darwinathome.org/mission/index.html
>
> Some familiar Alife applications are adapting to it:
>
>   - Fluidium: Gerald De Jong's "tensegrity" structures. Nice example of JOGL
> and webstart
> I believe Owen passed around a link 6 months ago:
> http://fluidiom.sourceforge.net/
>
>   - SodaBot -> SodaRace
>
>   - Larry Yaeger's PolyWorld
>
>   - More at: http://www.darwinathome.org/teams/index.html
>
> -Steve
>
> ________________________________________________________
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> mobile: [phone] Santa Fe, NM 87501
>
>
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