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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 06:39 PM
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Blind Watchmaker Biomorph applet
Edited on Sat Mar-28-09 06:48 PM by laconicsax
http://physics.syr.edu/courses/mirror/biomorph/

Fun to play around with for a bit.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 06:44 PM
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1. Interesting. Appears vaguely related to the Game Of Life.
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 06:51 PM
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2. flipping genes on and off
Edited on Sat Mar-28-09 07:05 PM by Teaser
can be mapped to a cellular automata model like Conway's Game of Life pretty easily. So it's no surprise there is a strong resemblance in terms of the output forms.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 06:53 PM
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3. Ok. Would be nice is the user could play with the crossover/mutation/etc. parameters.
Edited on Sat Mar-28-09 06:54 PM by BlooInBloo
EDIT: OTOH, I haven't read the book, so I don't really know what the purpose of the program is.
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 06:55 PM
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4. oh, totally agree
I think that Dawkins just wanted to show that a few simple rules could create some surprisingly complex structures

(cue Stephen Wolfram to come in and claim credit for the whole idea himself...)
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-28-09 07:15 PM
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5. Heh. I love Wolfram, but DAMN is he insufferable.
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