The creation and/or study of artificial life-like systems, or the simulation of life.

via: xkcd

• alife.org topics http://www.alife.org/wiki/index.php?TopicsList
• IlliGAL Home Page http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/index.php3
• everythign you want to know about Boids http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/
• Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Life Resources http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~csgs/resources/gaal.html
• Cultural Evolution
• Dynamic Systems
• GNU/linux AI + ALife howto
• main page > http://zhar.net/gnu-linux/howto/
• linuxdoc > http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/AI-Alife-HOWTO.html
• alife database by ariel dolan http://arieldolan.com/aldb/

• Karl Sims is widely reguarded as one of the pioneers in the field of genetic graphics, and evolving simulated creatures http://www.genarts.com/karl/ and influenced the digital biology project http://www.biota.org
• Human Cellular Automata (HCA) http://www.axia.demon.co.uk/hca.html
• Kenneth Rinaldo has created (set in motion) some excellent examples of emergence, lifelike chittering in what he refers to as the “confluence and coevolution of organic and technological cultures” http://www.ylem.org/artists/krinaldo/index.html
• Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau have worked on many plant-based digital art works http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/~christa/WORKS/index.html
• Mitchell Whitelaw completed a PhD thesis entitled “artificial life in new media art.” a study of artists working in (so-called) new media who are using techniques and concepts from the field of artificial life. This has been subsequently developed in to 'Metacreation' published by MIT press
  • http://education.canberra.edu.au/~mitchellw/#research
  • metacreation > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10080&ttype=2
• NotNot / ./ Driessens/Verstappen → http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/index.html
• Metaprogramming Emergent Graphics or “How can you write a computer program that doesn't get boring?” → http://draves.org/meg/
• Automating the process of art → http://www.iaaa.nl/
• Vivaria: a consideration and categorization of the artificial animal ⇒ http://www.vivaria.net/
• mimetic starfish, simulus + response » http://www.mimetics.com/starfish.html
• alife + music » http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/~rodney/Alife_Music.htm

• http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=0009FCA4-1A8F-1085-94F483414B7F0000
• simulated biology > http://flash.uchicago.edu/~emonet/biology/agentcell/
• Digital Biology Interest Group http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/igdigitalbiology/index2.html

see plant simulation

for the mac can be found http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~hq8y-ishm/artlife.html on here http://www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk/www/ALHome.html

• http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/t.quick/alife.html

• biblio collecto
  • Artificial Life Bibliography
  • http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/ezequiel/alife-page/alife.html
• Tom Ray's publications http://www.isd.atr.co.jp/~ray/pubs/index.html
  • Evolution, Complexity, Entropy, and Artificial Reality http://www.isd.atr.co.jp/~ray/pubs/oji/index.html
  • Evolution, Ecology and Optimization of Digital Organisms http://www.isd.atr.co.jp/~ray/pubs/tierra/index.html
• V.Ramos has written extensively on the use of biological systems for computation/art/architecture http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~cvrm/staff/vramos/index.html
• “the computational beauty of nature” http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/FLAOH/cbnhtml/home.html
• Jon McCormack?'s writings on l-systems, generative systems and artificial life from both technical and philisophical perspectives http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research.html
• Lsystems → MIDI Soddell, Fran & Soddell, Jacques (2000). Microbes and Music. 767-777. PRICAI 2000. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1886. (eds R. Mizoguchi and J. Slaney). Springer-Verlag: Berlin
• papers by Mark Bedau http://www.reed.edu/~mab/papers.html
• Open Problems In ALife

related nodes: Genetic Programming, Meme And Variation, Evolutionary Programming, SciArt

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