Evolving Neural Control for Virtual Creatures

Rick Giuly used breve for his JungleBoogie project.

"JungleBoogie is a research tool for exploring brain-body evolution. The system is based on the work of Karl Sims block creatures and Gregory Hornby's evolving L-System creature. I hope that JungleBoogie will function as a brain-body evolution toolkit, removing a great deal of tedious overhead and encourage people to investigate more advanced evolution involving interaction and intelligence. Nature has generated many versatile, robust control systems with corresponding physical bodies, e.g. the brain and body of an ant. JungleBoogie mimics nature's evolutionary design process and create virtual animals in a simulated physical environment. Eventually the evolved control systems could be transferred to real robotic bodies.