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A hands-on, whirlwind tour of artificial life introduces the average PC user to this expanding new technology and provides the tools to experiment on-screen. Original.
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The initial chapters discuss the concepts and insights of artificial life and their potential for leading to new discoveries. Eight programs freeware and shareware are explained in the book and made available on the included disk, allowing PC investigation of such concepts as cellular automaton, competing systems, cumulative selection, emergent behavior, evolution, and mutation. For example, in MICROANTS, red and black ants must learn to differentiate food from poison, avoid anteaters, and defeat each other in combat; players are in charge of life and death conditions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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