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Re: Design
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 7 Dec 2005 20:21:00 GMT
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PeterBalch <PeterBalch@+antispam+compuserve.com>
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Message text written by steve
> He'd hoped for some kind of interesting locomotion to 'just evolve'.
> What actually happened was that his creatures evolved into enormously
> tall blocks with no brains whatever.
> He patched up his algorithm in a variety of ways - but each time,
> his creatures would evolve into some totally un-interesting form
> that would win by exploiting loopholes in his testing scheme.
> He even ended up with creatures that collected energy by exploiting
> bugs and roundoff errors in his physics simulation!
I love it! Is it really true? Do you have a reference?
Peter
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| (...) I first saw this in a SigGraph course many years ago. Googling around, I'm fairly sure this is the guy who did the work: (URL) come a long way since those early days - his 1994 paper describes an approach to preventing the 'falling over' (...) (21 years ago, 7-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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