Evolution in practice

[I_am_not_mafia]

Moving sculptures. None of them are designed. They were all evolved on a computer. Far easier than trying to design them.

If the theory of evolution was incorrect then these sculptures would not exist.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Jansen

[Amarok]

Moving sculptures. None of them are designed. They were all evolved on a computer. Far easier than trying to design them.

If the theory of evolution was incorrect then these sculptures would not exist.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Jansen

Brilliant 

[brewer]

Pretty cool, a little creepy.

[Foxaèr]

So it's man-made constructs guided by wind?

[I_am_not_mafia]

Powered by wind. He's also started giving them drives. Not as in motors, but as in like an aversion to going into the water for example.

There's been a body of research in Artificial Life going back to the early 90's starting with Karl Simms evolving creatures to move around in simulations of environments with physics. He had a 1,000 CPU machine to play with at Thinking Machines. Last I saw someone recreated it on a pentium PC.

[Foxaèr]

Powered by wind. He's also started giving them drives. Not as in motors, but as in like an aversion to going into the water for example.

There's been a body of research in Artificial Life going back to the early 90's starting with Karl Simms evolving creatures to move around in simulations of environments with physics. He had a 1,000 CPU machine to play with at Thinking Machines. Last I saw someone recreated it on a pentium PC.

The video didn't explain, and that was one thing that concerned me. How was the water averted?

Cool.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Karl Simm's work from 1994

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The video didn't explain, and that was one thing that concerned me. How was the water averted?

I was wondering that myself. I'll need to find out.

[Foxaèr]

Finding things out based on actual science is so much better than finding things out based on an ancient mythology.