Tag: Saved for Later
Tis the Season
The Three Stages Of Santa – Potato, Terror, Glee
Dixie Chicken: 1941
from Shorpy Historic Picture Archive – Old Photos & Fine Art Prints
Red panda investigates the inside of a box
Die Gstettensaga: a science fiction movie about the Google Wars
Evolution simulator runs in browser
In Cary Huang’s evolution simulator, one first generates 1000 random geometrical beasties. Then one watches them iterate until equilibrium prevails, commanding the most successful to reproduce and decimating the failures. The measure of the monster is how far they can flop and wobble along in a simple a 2D landscape: most fail rather fast and hard.
(The game window will start out too large for the website: scroll down and click the “full screen” icon at the bottom of the window.)
The wireframe life forms remind me of an early and massively-overhyped “evolution simulator” called Eco, released in the late 1980s for 16-bit computers.
from Boing Boing
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Baby goat enthusiastically drinks its milk
Look at that little tail go.
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
- Sylvia Plath