Created: 2022-07-31
Last updated: 2022-07-31
These are some projects & articles related to that I have found interesting. I intend to update it as I find more. I hope this list can be valuable to anyone interested in learning more about artificial life.
| Year | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Langton's Loops |
Cellular automaton with a simple loop-shaped replicator. Often adapted.
Wikipedia |
| 1984 | Core War |
Game involving interacting programs, often self-replicating ones.
Wikipedia |
| 1991 | Tierra |
Studying evolution using programs living in linear memory.
Wikipedia YouTube: Project Tierra Source code |
| 1993 | Avida |
Inspired by Tierra, studies evolution of programs living in linear memory.
Wikipedia |
| 2015 | Lenia |
Cellular automaton with continuous cell values.
Home page Source code |
| 2016 | SALIS |
Inspired by Tierra, studies evolution of programs living in linear memory.
YouTube channel with videos explaining the simulation |
| 2016* | Alien |
Particle simulation in continuous space.
* May have been around since 2008 or earlier? Home page Source code |
| 2019 | Myco |
Inspired by SALIS, studies evolution of programs living in 2D memory.
YouTube: Myco: An Artificial Life Experiment Source code |
| 2020 | Broth |
Particle simulation in continuous space, with behavior governed by internal programs within control particles.
Introduction Source code |
Sources of inspiration for artificial life, and more generally, the study of biology from a computational perspective:
| Year | Link |
|---|---|
| 2017 | DNA: Bert Hubert |
| 2017 | Open-endedness: The last grand challenge you've never heard of by James Somers |
| 2020 | YouTube: I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast (hand-coding DNA) |
| 2020 | Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine |
| 2020 | "I should have loved biology" by James Somers |