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Links
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.
Quantum Flux: The Virtual Intelligence Matrix
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.
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.)
Pandamat
http://www.cswnet.com/~jwhitled/thesis.htm
Highlights the Pandamat artificial intelligence system.
NecroBones Artificial Life Experiments
http://www.necrobones.com/alife/
Features three Java artificial life experiments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Darwin Pond
http://www.ventrella.com/Darwin/darwin.html
An imaginary gene pool, a primordial puddle of genetic surprises. Free download; Windows.