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This is really cool! I made a fairly simple system with plants, herbivores, and carnivores... Plants can reproduce to any open square on the board. Herbivores and carnivores reproduce when they eat, and can die from overcrowding or randomly from disease/old age. Corpses provide fertilizer for nearby plants. Certainly not the most realistic model, but a lot of fun to mess around with!

http://ncase.me/emoji-prototype/?remote=-K4BOya31RZ3XEK5PTgy

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Yeah this is really cool! I tweaked the settings a bit - think this is a bit more stable of an ecosystem (also not the most realistic) http://ncase.me/emoji-prototype/?remote=-K4Bsn4mc4p0CJkH43cB

Awesome! I tried coming up with justifications for all of the rules, and decided that having animals popping into existence didn't make sense, but if you consider the whole thing an open system with an influx of predators, then yours still makes perfect sense. Much more interesting to watch :)

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