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Karl Sims - Evolved Virtual Creatures, Evolution Simulation, 1994

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What it is

Karl Sims's 1994 demonstration of evolved virtual creatures: block-bodied creatures whose bodies and controllers are evolved through selection, mutation and recombination to swim, walk and compete.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN treats it as the classic reference for evolutionary simulation and genetic programming, an inspiration for many projects, with notes on evolution exploiting simulation bugs.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Something like evolving virtual creatures would be a fun (although pretty ambitious) addition”

    Karl Sims' evolved virtual creatures as an idea to add to a project.

    jal278, 2014-06 · Recommendation · in “Maverick forerunner of artificial life and animation remains largely unknown”

  2. “I remember being obsessed with that paper”

    Classic evolving virtual creatures work, an inspiring paper.

    ehsankia, 2021-06 · Recommendation · in “ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: karl sims, artificial life, genetic algorithms, virtual creatures, evolution

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