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The Virtual FishTank

http://www.virtualfishtank.com/

Designed for people of all ages, the FishTank offers firsthand experiences in creating artificial life forms and reveals how simple behavioral rules can produce complex and surprising results.

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Quantum Flux: The Virtual Intelligence Matrix

http://www.qflux.org/

A model of human brain function designed by a neuroscientist at UCSD. The VIM is used to drive 3D characters who live in virtual worlds and can express emotion and creativity.

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PolyWorld Information (author's site)

http://www.beanblossom.in.us/larryy/PolyWorld.html

Source of information, technical report, and source code for the PolyWorld computational ecology, maintained by Larry Yaeger, PolyWorld's author. (This site contains more up to date links and information than the PolyWorld page at the Santa Fe Institute site.)

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Pandamat

http://www.cswnet.com/~jwhitled/thesis.htm

Highlights the Pandamat artificial intelligence system.

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Java, Artificial Life, and creature behaviour

http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/altavista/819/

Java application simulates creature behaviours and movement. Available for free download, including source code, and a paper on Artificial Life.

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Individual-Based Fish Modeling At Humboldt State University

http://www.humboldt.edu/~ecomodel/

Modeling software, theory, and applications. Instream flow model for trout. Salmon out-migration survival simulator.

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Hardware Artificial Life (HAL)

http://www.alife.co.uk/hal/index.html

Lotus Artificial Life's Java cellular automata substrate capable of supporting evolving, self-reproducing organisms which are capable of universal computation.

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Eden

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/projects/eden/eden.html

A networked, self-generating artificial ecosystem by John McCormack. A CD-ROM version for Macintosh and Windows is available for on-line purchase.

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Darwin Pond

http://www.ventrella.com/Darwin/darwin.html

An imaginary gene pool, a primordial puddle of genetic surprises. Free download; Windows.

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