[alife] Nanopond version 1.0 released

Adam Ierymenko adam.ierymenko at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 19:39:32 PDT 2005


I have just released version 1.0 of a new artificial life simulator 
entitled Nanopond.  Nanopond is an attempt to create the smallest, 
simplest "corewar style" (a.k.a. like Avida, Tierra, etc.) artificial 
life simulator program possible.  It's primary purpose is to serve as an 
educational tool for programmers who are curious about how these systems 
work.

Nanopond weighs in at only 847 lines of C code, the majority of which 
are comments!  It was written and tested under Linux, and anyone with a 
bit of C programming knowhow should be able to get it up and running on 
other operating systems as well.  It is only available in source code 
form at the moment.

For it's small size, Nanopond exhibits very rich evolutionary phenomena 
including the progressive evolution of cell programs of higher and 
higher complexity and the spontaneous emergence of self-replicating 
cells from random initial conditions.

Visit the Nanopond homepage here:

http://www.greythumb.com/people/api/nanopond.html

There is also a blog entry about it here:

http://www.greythumb.com/blog

- Adam Ierymenko




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