See also:

• Science: Biology: Evolution: Software  (12)

Applets for Neural Network and Artificial Life  staff.aist.go.jp/utsugi-a/Lab/Links.html A list of programs using alife type techniques (English/Japanese).

Archis Evolutionary System Simulator  www.greythumb.org/people/api/archis An artificial life simulator project that can also function as a genetic programming system. Written in Java with a graphical interface.

Artificial Life by Jpr  www.rennard.org/alife Introduction to artificial life. Each chapter is illustrated by a program or an applet. Chapters are available in PDF.

Artificial Life on the Web  www.aridolan.com A web-oriented artificial-life site: Alife, genetic-algorithm and cellular-automata experiments written in cross-platform web languages (Java, tcl/tk), with free source code.

The Breve Simulation Environment  www.spiderland.org/breve MacOSX software for simulation of artificial life and decentralized systems.

BugBots  bugbots.sourceforge.net BugBots is a game, sort of. Really it's a project in Artificial Intelligence, and Object Oriented Design with heavy abstraction.

Chaco the Chaos Collection  sourceforge.net/projects/chaco A collection of small tools for Chaos Modelling, based on ideas of Life game, Tierra and others.

Darwinbots  www.darwinbots.com/WikiManual/index.php?title=Main_Page A free artificial life program running under Windows. Similar to C-Robots with a biological bent, where the robots mutate and evolve over time.

Electric Sheep Screen-saver  electricsheep.org Electric Sheep realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet. Free; Linux, MacOS X.

Flocking Experiment  www.oursland.net/projects/lakeflock Two flocks of birds migrating to different locations flock together before splitting apart.

Java Fish  sourceforge.net/projects/jfish An aquarium simulation written in Java. The program uses neural networks for all of the fish being simulated, and the fish are artificially evolved from random starting information.

Kasprzyk's ALife Page  www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk/www/alife Artificial Life for the Macintosh.

Life Simulation Game  www.geocities.com/peterstephenbailey An artificial world of lifeforms which eat, move and reproduce. Each species is controlled by a program, and you can write your own lifeforms.

Manna Mouse  www.caplet.com/MannaMouse.html Exploration of fitness landscapes.

Physis  physis.sourceforge.net Physis is a software platform for testing the evolvability of different assembly-like programming languages.

PS-I  ps-i.sourceforge.net A sourceforge project for an environment for creating and running agent-based models. Tcl/Tk scriptable, cross-platform (Windows and Linux/Unix).