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And now for something completely different

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Discussion thread for the blog entry "And now for something completely different" by rabbitpirate.

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Aught3

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Cool, I'm not entirely sure how it's supposed to work but I ended up with a population of pink bugs. Some serious genetic drift going on.

Aw, all male bugs died :(
 
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Nogre

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Man, it takes forever because of the random 5 deaths. The random deaths keep killing off all my well-adapted bugs and it slows down the process massively. I don't know if you can do this, but if you could change the program to just automatically play out X generations (seemingly) intantaneously so that you don't just have to leave it running for a while to get a certain number of generations.

Edit: Never mind...I think I accidentally turned natural selection off. :? Cool program in any case. It's one of the better programs I've seen in terms of apparent visual representation.
 
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Aught3

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You have to turn on natural selection at the start, I didn't do this which is why I ended up with all pink bugs on a blue background. Still an interesting result.
 
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Aught3 said:
You have to turn on natural selection at the start,
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Yeah, sorry I should have mentioned that. When I first did the program it was on automatically but I decided to turn it off so that you could see what happened without any selection pressure. I am sure I had my reasons at the time :?
 
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Nogre said:
...but if you could change the program to just automatically play out X generations (seemingly) intantaneously so that you don't just have to leave it running for a while to get a certain number of generations.
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That's a good idea. I'm not sure that the current version of the program is setup to do that but I am sure with a bit of tinkering I might be able to do something. One of the buttons lets you speed up the process so that it runs at two generations a second but I think you are right, it could do with a turbo charge button. I'll put my thinking cap back on.
 
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Squawk

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That's a brilliant little program you have there, very nicely done.

Of course, this is all just micro-evolution, it doesn... you get the idea, that's where the eejits will go.
 
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