Re: Simulated Evolution

I'd suggest some time spent searching the web for 'Artificial Life' might be of help. Having said that I can think of two possibilities that Perl would be very well suited to indeed.

Cellular Automata
Lindenmayer Systems

The match will Perl is because both CAs and L-systems can be implemented using a string rewriting approach. In fact L-systems from the math point of view are string rewriting systems, it's part of the definition of an L-system. And of course, Perl has some of the best string handling available.

Quick Batman, a bibliography!

Lindenmayer Systems, Fractals, and Plants. Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and James Hanan, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1980.
The Book of L. G. Rozenberg and A. Salomaa., ed., Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1986.
The Computational Beauty of Nature. Gary William Flake, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
Lindenmayer Systems. G. Rozenberg and A. Salomaa., ed., Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1992.

A search of CPAN should also be worth the effort, I believe there is L-system code out there, probably CA as well.

–hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing…it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

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Re: Re: Simulated Evolution by sevensven (Pilgrim) on Dec 15, 2001 at 01:19 UTC
There is a beautifull L-system and GD sample code on the Issue 9, Spring 1998 (Volume 3, Issue 1) of TPJ, by Jason Reed. The text of the article is not available at TPJ, but you can find it here. There is also this page with some realy impressive L-systems, perl code, pictures and rules included. And if you want to set the bar realy high, you could check disney meets darwin e pro-actively interactive evolution for computer animation. Think OpenGL or VRML for eye-candy :-) -- sevensven or nana korobi, ya oki	[reply]

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Re: Re: Simulated Evolution
by sevensven (Pilgrim) on Dec 15, 2001 at 01:19 UTC

There is a beautifull L-system and GD sample code on the Issue 9, Spring 1998 (Volume 3, Issue 1) of TPJ, by Jason Reed.

The text of the article is not available at TPJ, but you can find it here. There is also this page with some realy impressive L-systems, perl code, pictures and rules included.

And if you want to set the bar realy high, you could check disney meets darwin e pro-actively interactive evolution for computer animation.

Think OpenGL or VRML for eye-candy :-)

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