Artificial Life

GOOeFloys (Gooey-floweez: Greater Object Oriented evolving Floys), are social, predatory, evolving artificial life creatures.

They belong to the flocking Alife creatures variety, sharing with them the social tendency to stick together, and the lifelike emergent behavior which is based on a few simple, local rules. They differ from most other flocking Alife animals by having the following properties:

Predation (they must survive against predatory GOOeFloys, or survive as one)
Ability to evolve (using the Genetic Algorithm).
Potential individualism (each can possess a different personality through evolutionary processes)

The GOOeFloys applet and instructions are presented below. For more details, see GOOeFloys description or click the Show Help and Show Rules buttons.

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Instructions

This version is based on Ariel Dolans eFloys with modification and addition of a base type from which various Alife forms can be constructed. Permutations in this version include a ‘Predator’ Floy and a ‘Prey’ Floy derived from the base primordial GOOeFloy. The addition of a predator demonstrates how the mechanics of emergent flocking behavior disrupt predation, much as in the wild. Predators share many base charactaristics of prey GOOeFloys, and are also capable of cooperation, so the effects of evolutionary cooperative predation can also be observed.