From: Phil Rhoades <phil@...>
Date: 2007-11-29T15:19:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Metaprogramming for Tierra-like (artificial life) program?

Jordan,


On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:49 +0900, MonkeeSage wrote:
> On Nov 28, 12:08 pm, Phil Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au> wrote:
> > People,
> >
> > Would it be possible to use Ruby's metaprogramming ability to write
> > something like Tierra?:
> >
> > http://www.nis.atr.jp/~ray/tierra/whatis.html
> >
> > http://www.nis.atr.jp/~ray/pubs/images/
> >
> > A quick summary for those who don't want to look at this site - Tierra
> > is an artificial life program using a virtual computer and virtual
> > machine code to allow "evolution" of self-reproducing code by mutation
> > (bit-flipping).  Various "organisms" then evolve including hosts,
> > parasites, immune hosts, hyper-parasites etc
> >
> > It would be a nice programming exercise for me (to learn more Ruby) if
> > something like Tierra was possible using metaprogramming (or any other
> > ruby facilities).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phil.
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> > Philip Rhoades
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> 
> Sure, you can write a Game of Life in ruby. (You could even get fancy
> and name it something else, like, say..."Tierra" ;P)
> 
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/rlife/


I think you missed how Tierra is actually working  . .

Phil.
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