"An interactive artificial
life environment where users can create artificial
creatures by typing text messages. The constant movement,
feeding, mating and reproduction activities of the
creatures result in a complex system that features
complex interactions between creature, and creatures as
well as users and creatures based on written text as a
primary source of (genetic) information.
- LifeSpacies II - online
http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/~christa/LIFESPACIES/LifeSpacies.html
- Interaction between online and
onsite participants through evolutionary forms
they create by typing text.
- Text-to-form coding system that
uses written text as genetic code and translates
it into virtual creatures.
- letters, syntax and
sequencing of the text is used to code
certain parameters in the creature's
design functions.
- Form, shape, color,
texture and the number of bodies and
limbs are influenced by the text
parameters.
- Body design and motion
determined by complexity of text message.
- Creatures eat text characters
released by participants and eat text that is the
same as their "genetic code" (=text
that created them)
- Creatures compete for text/food
and mate"
To visit a website containing
information on several of Christa Sommerer and Laurent
Mignonneau's works including this one, click here.
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