Algovivo an energy-based formulation for soft-bodied virtual creatures

https://juniorrojas.com/algovivo/

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Surely the article is wrong about "Evolved Virtual Creatures" from 1994 being the "world's first virtual creatures".

For example, see Steven Levy's #book "Artificial Life" for a nice summary of things as they stood in *1992*.

#ArtificialLife #VirtualCreatures #Life #Programming

Mentioned in the article above, from 1994:

"Evolved Virtual Creatures", Karl Sims (https://www.karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html).

The #paper in #SIGGRAPH [PDF]: https://www.karlsims.com/papers/siggraph94.pdf

The #video of the #VirtualCreatures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZtZia4ZkX8

#ArtificialLife #Evolution #Simulation #Programming

"Meet The Xenobots, Virtual Creatures Brought To Life", The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/science/xenobots-robots-frogs-xenopus.html).

The #paper in #PNAS [PDF]: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/117/4/1853.full.pdf

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22775465

#Xenobots #VirtualCreatures #ArtificialLife #SyntheticOrganisms #Life