This time, the hopper is evolved through NEAT.
This is a showcase of a few evolutionary demos, created by Mattias Fagerlund ( mattias@hypeskeptic.com ), for the pure joy of evolving.
These were created using GLScene (
http://www.glscene.org ) for graphics and ODE ( http://www.q12.org/ode/ ) for physics.
For the evolutionary part, I've used a proprietary Genetic Programming system,
and a (partial) proprietary
NEAT implementation.
This time, the hopper is evolved through NEAT.
Snake in action. Slither slither.
Hopper in action. Hop hop.
The inspiration for these programs came from many places, but primarily Karl Sims who pioneered physical simulations of this kind. Ever since I saw his work back in 1995 or 1996 I've wanted to do something like that. Here are a few links if you want more information;
http://web.genarts.com/karl/evolved-virtual-creatures.html
http://www.genarts.com/karl/
http://www.erachampion.com/ai/
http://www.q12.org/phd-movies.html
http://www.ventrella.com/Alife/Animated/animated_0.html
http://www.his.atr.co.jp/~ray/pubs/alife7a/index.html
