Aevol
Aeovl is a digital evolution platform designed to have a genetics model that is more similar to bacterial DNA than other digital evolution platforms . The genetic code of each…
The Encyclopedia of Artificial Life
Software platforms
ApeSDK
An artificial life software platform, originally called Noble Ape, that has been under continuous development since 1996. It is populated by agents with complex cognitive models and social interactions. These…
Avida
The Avida Digital Evolution Platform is an open-source artificial life system that has been used to conduct a wide range of studies on evolutionary dynamics . In Avida, self-replicating computer…
Boids
One of the most beautiful examples of emergence in nature is the graceful but disciplined flocking of birds. This behavior can be simulated in an artificial life system. Boids (online…
Chromaria
Chromaria is an Artificial Life system that was designed to facilitate research on open-ended evolution. It is inspired by the hypothesis that open-ended evolution is easier to achieve when, rather than evolving along a complex fitness landscape, individuals must simply achieve some minimal criterion (MC, in the quote below) in order to be allowed to reproduce.
Games
There have been many games or game-like simulations that feature an artificial life perspective: Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution The Sapling Game Orb Farm Open Constructor Sandspiel Club, Programmable app…
Lenia
Lenia is a class of continuous cellular automata systems. It was the topic of the ISAL Award for outstanding paper of 2019 and an entry in the 2018 ALife Art competition which won an honorable mention.
MABE
The MABE logo (source: the MABE wiki on GitHub) The Modular Agent Based Evolver framework (often referred to as MABE), is a software platform that aims to allow users to…
Stringmol
Stringmol is a “string-based programming language”, which uses encoded molecules as strings of operation code . It acts as an artificial chemistry system that displays the continuous appearance of chemical…
Symbulation
Symbulation is an evolutionary agent-based modeling platform focused on evolving and examining symbiosis and endosymbiosis. It is open source on GitHub and has a browser-based graphical user interface as well…
Tölvera
Tölvera is a Python library designed for composing together and interacting with basal agencies, developed by Jack Armitage at the Intelligent Instruments Lab, University of Iceland. Examples can be found at iil-examples/tolvera. See also the guide, reference and experiments pages. We…