Links: artificial life & evolutionary computing

• "Artificial Life" - a wonderful hypertext introduction by Thomas Ray, the creator of Tierra.
• Get A-Life by mathew - Hyperlinked article covers CA, L-Systems, Biomorphs, Tierra, GA & GP)
• Artificial Life and Genetic Algorithms Page - good intro
• Artificial Life Online 2.0 and their Software page - the Santa Fe Institute (Story: Breathing New Life into Alife Online)
• Welcome to Zooland: "The Artificial Life Resource" - from the Santa Fe institute
• The Temple of Alife (Java Applets) - great interactive simulations
• Ariel Dolan's Homepage - Floys, Java CA & source code
  • The GA Playground - A general GA toolkit implemented in Java, for experimenting with genetic algorithms and handling optimization problems
  • The New Artificial Life (Alife) Database - A Searchable Database of Alife Related Sites on the Net, Automatically Gathered by an Intelligent Search Bot
• Artificial Life "Games" Homepage
• ALife Garden - "a virtual ecosystem on the web"
• Alife Interactive Guide - a student essay
• The Genetic Programming Notebook - GA, AI, ALife. Includes a tutorial.
• The Genetic Algorithms Archive
• Articles:
  • Evolving a Conscious Machine By Gary Taubes (Cover Story from Discover magazine, June 1998)
• Software:
  • Tierra home page - Links to information about the Tierra digital evolution softwaredeveloped by Tom Ray.
  • Framsticks - 3D "Life simulation project is in progress. It includes evolution of physical structure, control system (neural network) structure and its knowledge.
  • Primordial Life - great screen-saver and simulation creates an artificial ecosystem of "biots"
  • Ventrella.com - A website of Artificial Life, Art, and Ideas
    • Gene Pool for Wndows - "an artificial life simulation where populations of physics-based organisms called "swimbots" evolve over time..."
    • Darwin Pond for Windows - "an imaginary gene pool, a primordial puddle of genetic surprises. More technically, Darwin Pond is an Artificial Life Simulation: a virtual world exhibiting the emergence of life-like behaviors..."
    • Sexual Swimmers - "Emergent Morphology and Locomotion Without a Fitness Function", published in: From Animals to Animats (page 484) 1996, MIT Press
  • Floys are social, territorial artificial life creatures, implemented in Java. There are also individualistic Floys and evolving Floys.
  • Life Drop Java Applet - "LifeDrop is a biologically-inspired 3D virtual worlds available to a wide audience on the Internet for education and research. ... Each creature is acting as an autonomous agent with its own genotype, metabolism, morphology and behaviors. Life forms are able to reproduce and their evolution often leads to surprising consequences." (from Virtual Worlds 2000)
  • Sonomorphs - An Application of Genetic Algorithms to the Growth and Development of Musical Organisms
  • Creatures - create and breed your own artificial life on a personal computer
    • The Creatures homepage - on sale now in many countries, see release dates for details
    • CyberLife - the revolutionary proprietary artificial life software behind Creatures
  • SoftBlocks - an interesting new simulation language, ideal for developing artificial life applications. One application described is ZedLand.
• Books:
  • Evolutionary Design by Computers edited by Peter J. Bentley Foreword by Richard Dawkins Book & CD-ROM edition (May 1999) Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk
    • The publisher's official book page where you can download Chapter 1 in .pdf format!
    • Author's Book Page with related links, Author's home page, More Ordering Information
• Newsgroups:
  • comp.ai.alife
  • comp.ai.genetic