Aging Life is Conway's game of life with a twist: the cells
age and change color. See
for the Java applet. [Aaron Davidson ,
comp.ai.alife, 09Mar97.]
Thai Truong's "Mac Cellular Automata" demonstrates
one-dimensional rules. It's on Brian Hill's ALife page,
. [Kasprzyk
, comp.theory.cell-automata, 13Dec96.]
Alex Vulliamy has written a simple Java swarming program,
. It makes a good
freeware screen saver for the Mac. [,
comp.ai.alife, 01Mar97.]
Other flocking/schooling applets can be found on
, , and
.
[Craig Reynolds , comp.ai.alife,
03Mar97.]
Floys are social, territorial Alife creatures --
of the Boids family -- implemented as a Java applet.
They attack anyone who invades their territory. Source code
is available from . [Ariel Dolan ,
comp.ai.genetic, 11Apr97.]
A.I. Wars (the Insect Mind) is a simulated bug battle,
recently featured in American Computing Magazine.
or
.
[, comp.ai, 31Mar97. David Joslin.]
corewar-ga is a new list for genetic algorithms and corewar,
spun out of rec.games.corewar. Send a "subscribe" message
to . A web page and
FTP site are being created, starting with list archives on
. [Martin M. Pedersen
, comp.ai.genetic, 05Apr97.]
For connections between genetic algorithms and cellular
automata, check out the Santa Fe Institute's Evolving CA page
at . [Cris Moore
, comp.theory.cell-automata, 09Apr97.]
The Genetic Programming Notebook has moved to
. Tutorials, FAQs,
directories, bibliographies, papers, conferences, software, etc.,
for genetic programming, genetic algorithms, and other AI/robotics
topics. [Jaime Fernandez , comp.ai.genetic, 25Mar97.
David Joslin.]
The Complexity & Artificial Life Research Concept (CALResCo)
site offers concise, non-technical introductions to alife,
automata, attractors, complexity, entropy, fractals,
genetic algorithms, neural networks and nonlinear science, etc.,
plus over 100 demonstration images. Also links to other sites
and FAQs. , or
from Europe. [Chris
Lucas , comp.ai.alife, 24Feb97.]
Papers, essays, and links about alife, genetics,
complexity, chaos theory, etc., have been collected
at .
[Tuba & Umur Ozkul , comp.theory, 18Feb97.]
Other info on complex adaptive systems,
genetic algorithms, and artificial life can be found
at . [Moshe
Sipper , comp.ai.genetic, 17Feb97.]