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Web A-life Resources

spe·cies for Mac
- At http://www.barnholt.net/sw/species/
Artificial Life Online 2.0
- At http://www.alife.org/
Artificial Intelligence Tutorial Review
- At http://psych.utoronto.ca/~reingold/courses/ai/
Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life Resources
- At http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~csgs/resources/gaal.html
Genetic Arm 2.0
- At http://www.e-nuts.net/en/genetic-algorithms
Top: Computers: Artificial Life
- At http://dmoz.org/Computers/Artificial_Life/
Life Drop
- At http://www.virtual-worlds.net/lifedrop/
Virtual A-life Library
- List of A-life Resources - Two Levels Deep
- At http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/alife-library.html
Richard Dawkins Homepage - Unofficial
- At http://www.world-of-dawkins.com/

A-life Game - Project Von Neuman
- Arcade Style Space Shootem Game Using Artificial Life Algorithms
- At http://www.krl.caltech.edu/~charles/alife-game/

Ecolab - evolution software
- Includes mini Tierra and other references. Published papers as well.
- At http://ecolab.sourceforge.net/
Avida
- Avida Software : http://dllab.caltech.edu/avida/
The James Randi Educational Foundation Homepage
- At http://www.randi.org/

Edge : To Arrive At The EDGE of The World's Knowledge
- Interviews, Speeches and Book Reviews, Including Richard Dawkins and Diamond Jared
- At http://www.edge.org/
CNS/Ph 175: Introduction to Artificial Life
- A course taught at caltech
- At http://www.krl.caltech.edu/~charles/cns175
Boids
- Background and Update - by Craig Reynolds (1 deep into other references)
- At http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
Reviews and Papers by Howard Gutowitz
- Papers on Vants, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography, etc.
- At http://www.santafe.edu/~hag/
Vitorino Ramos, Filipe Almeida - "Artificial Ant Colonies in Digital Image Habitats - A Mass Behaviour Effect Study on Pattern Recognition"
- At http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/ref_29.html
Artificial Life used for Artificial Intelligence - by Charles Ofria
- Good summary
- At http://www.krl.caltech.edu/~charles/stories/alife.html

PC (DOS-Windows) A-life Software

A-life Game - Project Von Neuman
- Arcade Style Space Shootem Game Using Artificial Life Algorithms
- At http://www.krl.caltech.edu/~charles/alife-game/

Ant for DOS 1.1 - DOS
- At http://www.RobinUpton.com/software/
Ants - DOS
- Emmergent behaviour using simple rules. Website looks defunct but keeping it here for future reference.
- At http://www.wandana.demon.co.uk/ants.htm
Generalized Ants
- "Briefly, an "ant" moves around on an infinite checkerboard, each square of which we refer to as a "cell". Each cell in the plane is labeled as either an L-cell or an R-cell (usually, one fills the plane with L-cells to start). The ant starts out on the boundary between two cells, and as it passes through each cell, it makes a 90 degree turn, turning to the left in L-cells and to the right in R-cells, and it changes the state of the cell it just left, switching L-cells to R-cells, and vice versa. Following this simple set of rules gives rise to some rather complicated behavior; the pattern of the ant's track alternates between apparent chaos and symmetry, and eventually it starts to build a "highway" moving off in a single direction.
  The above described ant (and some variations) was originally studied by Chris Langton (then at the Santa Fe Institute, more recently a co-founder of the Swarm Corporation). Later, Jim Propp generalized the ant by considering each cell to be in one of n different states: each ant has some "internal programming" which tells it whether to turn left or right when the cell is in that state. This "program" can be represented as a string of n Ls and Rs, and the kth letter represents the ant's action when it comes to a cell in state k. For example, Langton's ant, described above, is a 2 state ant with the rule string LR (or in binary 10, so we call this "ant number 2"). The 7 state ant with rule string LLRRRLR (ant number 98) turns left when it visits a cell in state 1, 2, or 6, and right when it visits cells in state 3, 4, 5, or 7.
  For all such generalized ants, one can readily see that if there is at least one L and at least one R in the rule string, the track of the ant will always be unbounded. And certain ants exhibit recurrent symmetry, while others have apparently chaotic behavior. "
- At http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~scott/ants/
Ant Colony Optimisation Homepage
- At http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo/ACO/ACO.html
Software for Demonstrating Complex Adaptive Systems
- At http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/complex/
Welcome to Stone's Home Page - freeware for Macintosh and a few for Windows - ArtificialLife,Fractal,Chaos,CellularAutomata,HyperDimension,Java,XCMD,AfterDark,GeneticProgramming
- At http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hq8y-ishm/
- At http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hq8y-ishm/windows.html
Cellular Automata Software
- At http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hq8y-ishm/cellauto.html
University of Tennessee Life Science Pages
- At http://ecology.tiem.utk.edu/~gross/WWW_pt2d.html
A-Quarium - Windows Screen saver
- Flocking by Ric Colasanti
- At http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/nuocpe/aquarium.html
Biotopia - DOS
- New Artificial Life system that tries to have all the qualities which scientists are looking for - by Anthony LIEKENS.
- At http://alife.nerdhero.org/
Boids - Windows program and screen saver
- Based on The Classic Flocking Program by Jürgen Schmitz
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/boids/
Boppers - Windows
- GA and Crossover based Vants/boids type program - by Rudy Rucker
- At http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/boppers.htm
CALIFE - DOS
- DOS-based VGA 1D CA simulator - by Rudy Rucker
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/calife/
CAPOW - Windows
- Program for evolving one-dimensional cellular automata - by Rudy Rucker
- At http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/capow
CAT - Windows
- Cellular Automaton Tool
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/cat/
CELLAB - Windows
- Cellular Automata Laboratory - by Rudy Rucker
- At http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/cellab.htm
Cellular - Source Code for DOS
- Automata Programming System by Dana Eckart
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/cellang/
Corewar - DOS
- Computer Algorithm Battles by Edwin J. Herrell and Brad J. Hlista
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/corewar/
Creatures Software - MS-Windows/Mac
- Commercial - Create and breed your own artificial life on a personal computer (PC and Mac)
- Real at http://www.cyberlife.co.uk/creatures_frameset.htm
Creavolv - DOS
- Alife simulation of bacteria - immergent properties and evolution
- At ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/origins/software/creavolv/
Cybercillin - DOS
- Cybercillin simulates the growth of a colony of bacteria, and the effects of an 'antibiotic'. by Paul Smith
- At http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/software/cybercillin.html
EVOLAB - Windows (in German)
- Evolution program by Martin Reiche
- At http://www.martin-reiche.de
Flexi CA - DOS
- A two dimensional Cellular Automaton simulator with fully configurable rules by Chris Gordon-Smith
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/flexca/
Get-a-Life/Cybertation - Windows (Separate Binaries for 3.1x and Win95)
- Improved version of Dawkins' Biomorphs
- At http://www.nottinghill.com/cyber/
Gnarly - DOS
- Gnarly Sampler (Spirograph, Chaotic Vine, Quartic Julia Sets) - by Rudy Rucker
- At http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/gnarly.htm
JVN - DOS
- John von Neumann Universal Constructor - by R. Nobili and U. Pesavento
- At http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/software/jvn.html
LPARSER - DOS/With extras Windows Interface
- An l-system is a rule like description of a 3d form
- At http://www.xs4all.nl/~ljlapre/
Macrophylon - DOS
- THE SIMULATION MODEL OF EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS - by Kirill V.Essin and Vladimir F.Levchenko
- At http://kal-el.ugr.es/macrophylon/intro.html
MBITI - DOS/Windows
- a DOS and Windows based program with neural-net carnivorous/herbivorous agents that evolve (a bit), eat each other and so on... by Jason Spofford
- At http://kal-el.ugr.es/pitis.html
Primordial Arena - Win95 and a Screensaver
- Watch animated "biots" evolve in a "biot eat biot" world by Jason Spoffor
- At http://www.io.com/~spofford/index.html
Iterated Prisoner's Delemma Simulator - Windows
- by Philippe Mathieu
- At http://www.lifl.fr/IPD/
Tierra - Source Code for DOS
- by Philippe Mathieu
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/tom-ray/
- Tierra homepage at http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/tierra/tierra.html
WinCA - Windows
- A cellular automata simulator with Windows GUI, by Bob Fisch and David Griffeath
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/win-ga
WinGA - Windows
- A genetic algorithm simulator with Windows GUI, by Ian Munro
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/win-ga
Winlife - Windows
- This program allows you to play John Conway's "Game of Life" - by John Harper
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/winlife

Apple Macintosh A-life Software

LifeHex - by Yukio Hirose
- Conways Life Simulation for Mac
- At http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA022023/index_E.html
Autumn Leaves - by Simon Fraser
- After Dark Screen Saver - Blowing Leaves
- At http://www.santafe.edu/~smfr/ad.html#leaves
Buzzz - by Simon Fraser
- After Dark Screen Saver - Simulating swarming insects with rendered graphics
- At http://www.santafe.edu/~smfr/ad.html#buzzz
Creatures Software - MS-Windows/Mac
- Commercial - Create and breed your own artificial life on a personal computer (PC and Mac)
- Real at http://www.cyberlife.co.uk/creatures_frameset.htm
Mazin' Shapes - by Simon Fraser
- After Dark Screen Saver - Drawing colourful graphics by iterating a simple transformation
- At http://www.santafe.edu/~smfr/ad.html
Morphin' Shapes - by Simon Fraser
- After Dark Screen Saver - Mazin' Shapes, but changes one of parameters on the fly
- At http://www.santafe.edu/~smfr/ad.html
Poincaré - by Simon Fraser
- After Dark Screen Saver - Demonstrates Poincaré's recurrence theorem
- At http://www.santafe.edu/~smfr/ad.html

Bugs - by Keith Wiley
- Artificial Life Simulation
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/bugs/
Copy Cat - by Keith Wiley
- Artificial Life Simulation
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/softcomp/Alife/packages/copycat/

Camazine - By Nick Turner
- A Collection of Macintosh Alife programs
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/camazine/
LEE
- Latent Energy Environments
- At http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/fil/lee/lee.html
Life Lab by Andrew Trevorrow
- A-life software
- At ftp://redback.cs.uwa.edu.au/Others/AndrewTrevorrow/
Swarm
- multi agent based simulation software
- At http://www.swarm.org
Mac Boids by Craig Reynolds
- Flocking behaviour
- At http://hmt.com/cwr/boids.html
Neoterics by Kevin Coble
- Flocking behaviour
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/neoterics/
Starlogo - by Epistemology and Learning Group, MIT
- Programmable modeling environment
- At http://el.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/Projects/starlogo
Mac Tierra by Simon Fraser
- Study the evolutionary process by the instantiation of evolution in another form - on the computer
- At http://www.santafe.edu/~smfr/mactierra.html
Vivarium - by Ryan Koopmans
- Vivarium is an interactive demonstration of the evolution of behavior.
- At http://web-hou.iapc.net/~koops/vivarium/vivarium.html

UNIX A-life Software

Life Programs - by A.K. Dewdney
- Includes l-sys, biomorph, biester and corewars.
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/ak-dewdney/
Hodgepodge machine - by Jörg Heitkötter
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/hodgepodge/
Charles Stuart University Alife Anon FTP Server - DOS and UNIX Software
- Biomorphs, Genetic Algorithm Worklabs, CAs, etc.
- At ftp://life.csu.edu.au/pub/complex/
XLIFE
- Conways Life
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/xlife/
Ecolab - evolution software
- Includes mini Tierra and other references. Published papers as well.
- At http://parallel.acsu.unsw.edu.au/rks/ecolab.html
Xcsort by Stephane Wulc
- An application (under linux and X11) which simulates a collective sort (by ants) based on J.L. Deneubourg rules
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/packages/xcsort/
Xca by Chris Langton
- A self-replicating cellular automaton
- At ftp://ftp.Germany.EU.net/pub/research/ci/Alife/chris-langton/
JVN by R. Nobili and U. Pesavento
- An implementation of the John von Neumann Universal Constructor
- At http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/software/jvn.html

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