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unusual facts about artificial life



Karl Sims

The cover of Artificial Life: An Overview by Chris Langton notably used an image of the creatures generated by Sims.

Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice

Created by Craig Reynolds and others at Symbolics Graphics Division in 1986, the film was intended to portray the capabilities of the boids artificial life program.


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Kid Amazo

As Amazo, merely an advanced robot, failed, the next approach would be to cross bio-mechanical material from Amazo's body with human ova and DNA, in order to obtain a cyborg being who would exhibit the best traits of both human and artificial life.