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3805126 No.3805126 [Reply] [Original]

Time to simulate life!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp_OpQPumSc
Here's Biogenesis. I'm trying to figure it out. I've read (skimmed) the user manual and can't seem to figure out how to start a world with just simple 1-2 gene cells. This happened in the first world I started, but since then, they've all been decently complex to begin with.
Any other good simulators that aren't super huge?

>> No.3805154

What, no biology people on here right now?
Lame.

>> No.3805160

>>3805154
Biology?
Lame.

>> No.3805162
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3805162

A fucking love cellular automata!

Picture is a tree emerging from Conway's game of life.

>> No.3805165

>>3805154

>2011
>thinks biology is a /sci/ence

>> No.3805182

>>3805162

I've played around in that game. I've never been able to actually generate anything particularly interesting myself, though. It's a little closer to the programming end of life simulators than Biogenesis seems to be. Although, I do like how Conway's Life is able to show that complex, self-replicating things can happen in a medium with very simple rules.