Software Websites

Introduction to artificial life. Each chapter is illustrated by a program or an applet. Chapters are available in PDF.

Exploration of fitness landscapes.

Two flocks of birds migrating to different locations flock together before splitting apart.

An aquarium simulation written in Java. The program uses neural networks for all of the fish being simulated, and the fish are artificially evolved from random starting information.

Physis is a software platform for testing the evolvability of different assembly-like programming languages.

A collection of small tools for Chaos Modelling, based on ideas of Life game, Tierra and others.

Electric Sheep realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet. Free; Linux, MacOS X.

A sourceforge project for an environment for creating and running agent-based models. Tcl/Tk scriptable, cross-platform (Windows and Linux/Unix).

A list of programs using alife type techniques (English/Japanese).

A free artificial life program running under Windows. Similar to C-Robots with a biological bent, where the robots mutate and evolve over time.