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cottonseed on July 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Evolutionary algorithms and analog electronic circ...

Karl Sims worked on evolving virtual creates at the Media Lab. He used evolutionary search to design creatures that could perform various kinds of locomotion: crawling, jumping, swimming, etc. [1] I heard the story that his original physics simulation had a bug which the evolutionary search exploited to make creatures that could fly.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=192167

jesuslop on July 27, 2014 [–]

And the videos were awesome: https://archive.org/details/sims_evolved_virtual_creatures_1...

cottonseed on July 28, 2014 | [–]

I hadn't seen those in ages. Thanks!

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