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ALIEN is an artificial life simulation program based on a specialized physics and rendering engine in CUDA (alien-project.org)

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[–] nocaptchaforme 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are there any other interesting programs like this? I've always been a fan of things like Conway's Game of Life.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are a few life simulator projects, OpenWorm is another really interesting one for example. What I'd like to see is a distributed version of ALIEN where it runs kind of like seti@home, then you could build out a massive ecosystem of virtual life to see what happens.

[–] nocaptchaforme 2 points 2 years ago

I never even considered that! What a phenomenal idea.

[–] grooverut 1 points 1 year ago

I wish this used open cl so it could be used on an AMD video card.