MergeLife
Posted: December 16th, 2018, 10:27 pm
Hello, I wanted to introducing MergeLife. This is a family of continuous (full color) cellular automata, where individual rules can be evolved using a genetic algorithm (or other optimization algorithm). Rules are represented by short hexadecimal strings, such as ea44-55df-9025-bead-5f6e-45ca-6168-275a. The genetic algorithm uses an advanced objective function to find rules that exhibit complex behavior. Most rules are not useful. I introduced MergeLife in the Journal of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. More information here:
- Original Academic Paper: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10710-018-9336-1
GitHub (JavaScript, Python, & Java): https://github.com/jeffheaton/mergelife
Code Pen Example: https://codepen.io/jeffheaton/full/YOZWjp
MergeLife Online with JavaScript Examples: https://www.heatonresearch.com/mergelife/
YouTube Play List: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... wIU7lkXLOD