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I'm sure I've run this as Java code years ago, along with another demo that evolved a car capable of navigating around a course

Edit: I remember now - I was trying to learn neural networks and the code demonstrated using GA to evolve a neural network. Can't find a link, unfortunately, which is a shame as it's an interesting subject

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I just had a look at the source and it's written in pure AS2 which makes me think that it's probably kind of old. Either that or the person who wrote it never made the switch to AS3.

I just thought it was interesting because I haven't personally seen many realtime demos of genetic algorithms, especially ones that run in the browser, though I don't doubt that they've been kicking around for years.

I know I've seen this Flash version a few years back.

Source code puts parts of it to Jan 2007, but looks like this particular version is Dec 2008. Nice bit of code for 16K

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