Electronic Life Makes Evolving Art 54
brilanon writes "Good news! On Sept 4, critterdrug, the a-life lab for the twenty-teens, was updated to make generating a species almost trivial. A new video shows semi-random artificial animals gaining neurons and synapses as they compete to draw a gradient on an animated shared canvas which constitutes 1024 frames spread through time. The canvas is a 10-megabyte digital background for the lossy neural nets that populate the world. What you get are cellular automata run by psychic neural nets that are bound by the rules of a survival contest with physics. Features implementations of telepathy, Rupert Sheldrake's morphic fields and five types of drugs. The key assignments have changed since critterding; check the changelog on the web page for the new ones. Happy hacking!"
Five kinds of drugs, you say? (Score:5, Funny)
The summary probably makes more sense when you're high.
Re:Five kinds of drugs, you say? (Score:5, Funny)
I can assure you sir, it does not.
I am fucking wasted (Score:3, Funny)
I'm pretty goddamn drunk right now but I'm fucking certain that summary makes as little sense to everyone else on here as it does to me.
Sorry I'm late posting, but... (Score:3, Funny)
my universe keeps getting stopped and restarted.
Re:What is it? (Score:5, Funny)
All you need to do is to watch that linked youtube video.
It doesn't explain anything at all but will give you epilepsy after two viewings.
--jeffk++
Translation? (Score:1, Funny)
Translation: ... pokemon? eating brains and trying to use the gradient fill tool in photoshop on a 1024 frame video. The canvas is a big background for .. digimon I guess. What you get are viruses bound by the psychic friends network on the Survivor tv show competing against ... the forces of physics? Maybe they're trying to defy gravity or build a space elevator or something. The submitter took 5 kinds of drugs! Keys, or maybe people, have been moved about in a re-org. Love my product!
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Hire a better PR person, seriously.
Re:Five kinds of drugs, you say? (Score:5, Funny)
"The summary probably makes more sense when you're high."
Well, not really. Hell, the program itself doesn't even make sense sober or stoned. I think GIMP has a more usable UI.
Re:What is it? (Score:4, Funny)
My wife says you're missing the most important part.