Artificial Life Demo that Dies?

topic posted Thu, April 26, 2007 - 8:55 AM by  ROb
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Hello! I'm doing a presentation for a semantics class of mine on people's meaning of the word "death". As one example, I was hoping to find some sort of alife software, demo or something that would have an element that would "die" at some point.

It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just something I could use as a small visual demo of what could be interpreted as something being "alive" and then "dead" - cuteness would get bonus points.

Thanks!
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  • Re: Artificial Life Demo that Dies?

    Sat, May 19, 2007 - 6:01 PM
    Tierra ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier...imulation) ) simulates one form of death, namely, being eaten by a predator. However, the "organisms" in it don't die of natural causes or disease. They might, if you ran it long enough -- it's based on an (interesting) evolutionary model that is designed to emerge that kind of complex behavior.

    I think this would definitely work for your presentation. It has a simple graphics display that shows the different species replicating, growing and killing/eating each other.

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