I Simulated Evolution: Something Happened…
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Published 2023-06-08
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I created artificial life along with a procedurally generated environment to simulate evolution! The ultimate goal is to turn this into an evolution simulator game, but one step at a time… let's just do our best to (try to) learn about biology and ecology!
- How does natural selection lead to evolution?
- How does predation evolve?
- Can we find homeostasis?
In this simulation, we explore the relationship between herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores. We also allow mutations in size, speed, rate of reproduction, and diet through natural selection.
Thanks to all the great simulation videos on YouTube which inspired this series! Particularly:
Sebastian Lague - / @sebastianlague
Primer - / @primerblobs
ThinMatrix - / @thinmatrix
The Bibites: Digital Life - / @thebibitesdigitallife
The Sapling - / @thesapling
Music by:
- geoffharvey from Pixabay - pixabay.com/users/geoffharvey-9096471/?utm_source=…
- Nullhertz from Pixabay - pixabay.com/users/nullhertz-29811401/?utm_source=l…
#evolution #simulator #nature
All Comments (21)
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For anyone seeing this for a second time, I realised I uploaded the wrong version which had some washed out colours, poor resolution, and odd sound! This one is better :)
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Ironically, giving prey more ways to defend themselves would’ve limited the growth (in size)of the predators making the point where they’re to big to sustain themselves taking much longer which is ironically beneficial to predators
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Hey ! I'm doing a PhD in evolutionnary ecology and this is a really cool video ! What you observed at the end of the video with carnivores (predators) replacing herbivores (preys) is very common in population dynamics, although not as drastic as what happened in your case. The Lotka-Volterra equations are a pretty famous way to explain and model what happens, I recommand you to check it out and what's been done around it !
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Is there a mechanic to this that let's the environment slowly change? like temperature making more ice and desert climate, that would be interesting to see how things adapt.
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Thought this video came from some of those well known YouTube channels about evolution and coding. But no, just a currently underrated YouTube channel which so happens to have an interesting well put video. This video really needs more attention.
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One interesting feature I think you could add would be to add a variable for how "Migratory" a species is. Basically, a chance for it to move, even though it has available resources. In a larger map, this could potenially give prey some defense against predators, at the cost of potentially moving to a location that's worse off resource wise.
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This is pretty cool, and it makes sense when you view it as the very beginning of evolution. Like a pendulum, it swings between states based on what is advantageous at the time. This changed the way I viewed evolution. Pretty cool stuff!
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Your mutations are really well done. I might recommend focusing on the four F’s : (Fight, Flight, the other 2 you have). Size and speed models don’t really capture all of the physical traits anyhow (camouflage, intimidation, communication, … there’s so much) I like how you chose hexagons instead of squares (it’s hard math, but more fun)
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The effect you've got when you got a lot of herbivores, and then they were replaced by carnivores and vice versa is probably the same as "population waves", it's a pretty easy, but interesting concept. So yeah, they probably would repeatedly replace each other, just like it happens with hunters and prey in real life!
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this is video quality i dont see in channels with like 50k subs this is factually accurate informative entertaining statistical give this man some compensation for his unthinkable work
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Very interesting! I am intrigued to see your simulator and channel evolve. This is also some superb video quality.
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This is so awesome! So exciting and inspiring to see people just out here doing awesome things just for so :D
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This is a great video! Keep up the amazing work!
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Very entertaining video! Good luck on your future YouTube endeavors.
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4:12 Correct me if I'm wrong, but based off of what I've learned in biology, energy that's passed up the food chain gets less and less, making it so that carnivores, especially ones higher on the food chain, have to eat more.
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Fascinating and brilliant ❤ You succeeded where I failed so many times, Life simulations are a project that I worked on programming at least a few times and I’m super curious what program you created this in? Also, are you an art student? You definitely seem to have some really good knowledge of animation and programming.
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"bees are smart" me 10 seconds later (not a joke) watch a bee crash into my window and die.
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4:32 Another channel working with evolutionary simulations, the Bibites channel, had a similar phenomenon where it was much more advantageous to be a herbivore than a carnivore. He eventually figured out that the key block he was missing was digestion. Since plant matter in real life isn’t as energy dense as meat, there’s less profit in actually processing it and it takes longer. Maybe that’s what is happening here as well? It would be super interesting if that was the same case here!
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5:22 "[...] an untapped population of defenseless walking meatbags." HK-47: "As a meatbag would say: 'I have a bad feeling about this.'"
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subscribed great work, you can see the quality of the video took a long time.
