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

https://juniorrojas.com/algovivo/

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Show threadरञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Apr 4, 2020

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*.

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Show threadरञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Apr 4, 2020

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

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Evolved Virtual Creatures by Karl Sims, 1994

Demo of simulated block creatures performing various evolved behaviors.

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Apr 4, 2020

"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

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Meet the Xenobots, Virtual Creatures Brought to Life

Computer scientists and biologists have teamed up to make a new class of living robotics that challenge the boundary between digital and biological.

The New York Times