One of Ecosystems inspirations

[SJK]

I thought people might enjoy this video. It may also help some understand why Ecosystem looks the way it does. The virtual life forms in Ecosystem are evolving on their own and not limited to a predefined template of earth like creatures. One of the things that sets Ecosystem apart from many other evolution games.

 

[Tom Johnson]

I thought people might enjoy this video. It may also help some understand why Ecosystem looks the way it does. The virtual life forms in Ecosystem are evolving on their own and not limited to a predefined template of earth like creatures. One of the things that sets Ecosystem apart from many other evolution games.

It's amazing to think that he did this over twenty five years ago. I believe he ran it over long periods of time on a supercomputer. It also really does function as a nice explainer for what's different about Ecosystem

 

[Hudston]

I've always been fascinated with Karl Sims' work, it's great to be able to mess around with something similar on my own computer!

 

[person111]

Evolution is fascinating