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One of the coolest things I've seen on the internet recently! Show this to Richard Dawkins!

Please do continue with work on this site, I'd love to see the underlying algorithms etc. I would like to make a small donation, if you let me know how.

Thanks for making it. Very entertaining and almost hypnotizing to watch.

The application freezes for me when I set "population size" to 5, i.e. identical to "simultaneous creatures". Seems to happen rather consistently in Chrome on windows.

Edit: Seems to be able to reproduce the issue in FF as well.

Awesome stuff. You should put the source somewhere :)

How are you calculating fitness?

The fitness is simply the distance traveled to the right. The DNA is made up of segment lengths, with, joint rotation, joint speed and joint offset (when the joints move relative to the other joints)

How do you figure the movement of each joint? I saw some were kind of wobbly.