Artificial Life

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Artificial life combines by love of programming with my love of biology. It shows how seemingly complex, life-like behaviour can arise from simple rules.

Heterocyst chemical reactions
Heterocyst simulation

Simulation of a filament of bacteria, growing and differentiating.
Evolved fish-like creature with four eyes
Ecosystem simulation

Simulations of multiple species of creatures, co-existing and evolving.
Example of a simple cell with a pore
Cell simulation

Simulating some cells, letting them evolve and figuring out what happened.
Slime mold simulation
Slime mold

A simulation of cells releasing and following a pheromone, causing aggregation without central control.
Hyphae simulation
Hyphae simulation

Simple simulation of hyphae growing and splitting.
Simulated ant colony
Ant simulations

My attempt to simulate an ant colony.
Sugarscape simulation
Sugarscape

Recreating a 90s simulation of a simple sugar-harvesting society.
A generated fractal arthropod
Evolving arthropods

Generating fractal-like images of arthropods using Python and SVG.

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9 Apr 2011 Horse race gambling simulation