Evolving Floys

Ariel Dolan's artificial-life site contains alife, genetic-algorithm and cellular-automata experiments written in Java and other cross-platform Web languages. eFloys are evolving Floys, or eFloys. "Floys belong to the flocking Alife creatures variety, sharing with them the social tendency to stick together, and the lifelike emergent behavior which is based on a few simple, local rules."

Usage: Download Efloys.zip and unzip it within your HTML directory.

Java Source: contained in the zip file

HTML Source:

<applet code=Efloys.class width=600 height=250>

<PARAM NAME=MaxSpeed VALUE="5">
<PARAM NAME=BounceSpeed VALUE="0.8">
<PARAM NAME=ApproachAcceleration VALUE="0.3">
<PARAM NAME=CenterAcceleration VALUE="0.1">
<PARAM NAME=DistBrotherFactor VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME=DistStrangerFactor VALUE="20">
<PARAM NAME=DistLocalFactor VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME=CollisionDistance VALUE="200">
<PARAM NAME=CollisionBrotherFactor VALUE="-1">
<PARAM NAME=CollisionStrangerFactor VALUE="30">
<PARAM NAME=CollisionLocalFactor VALUE="-40">

<PARAM NAME=color VALUE="">
<PARAM NAME=NumberOfNeighbors VALUE="2">
<PARAM NAME=MutationFactor VALUE="0.1">
<PARAM NAME=CrossoverFactor VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME=energy VALUE="10">
<PARAM NAME=safety VALUE="10">
<PARAM NAME=cooperation VALUE="10">

<PARAM NAME=EnergyFactor VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME=SafetyFactor VALUE="2">
<PARAM NAME=CooperationFactor VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME=SurviversFactor VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME=PopulationSize VALUE="20">
<PARAM NAME=FreeWillFactor VALUE="0.05">
<PARAM NAME=LifeSpan VALUE="50">
</applet>

Author: Ariel Dolan

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