After several years of being stuck with only the frogfoot as a swimmer, I've finally managed to get more "working" water creatures.

Since they tend to swim in circles or curves, I've had success with making a straight-line swimmer by using a very long evaluation time.

They will be on the creature page soon, though currently I am experiencing account-related problems.

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As a Linux user, I was wondering if we could get a collaboration effort setup to get a Linux tutorial together. I saw that it can be run on Linux, but I can't find any information on how to get it to run. I'm thinking it is done via WINE, but with WINE, some configuration is always in order to get something to run which is why we should setup a page to get it up and running.

Edit: Yes, you use WINE but we still need to test and figure out which configurations you need to use 3DVCE effectively on Linux.

Is there no tutorial for how to use this software? I can't seem to get an evolution to run with water. When I press Go, it automatically reverts to land mode and I can't switch to water. I have no idea what a fitness schedule is or where to find it. There is no guide anywhere for this thing so people can learn to use it.

We should Make a Forum to share our creatures and thoughts who's in?

As in topic, could you share what settings you are using?

Population size, tournament, body mutation, brain mutation, Xover rate

The reason I asking is my creature is Gen 10000 with fitness 1500 and the evolving pace is very slow.

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We all know that Lee's site (stellaralchemy.com) has been gone since 2012, but now the Wayback Machine can't access the archived copy of the site anymore either, because the site's been converted into a domain parking and there's a robot.txt preventing Wayback from accessing the old site.

Ideas?

I've noticed with the creature files in many evolutions I've run that the first creature (creature_00000) has the best fitness the vast majority of the time. Also, I've noticed that it always has some fitness value added to its evalution. Why is this? Is this a bug or is it intentional?

Thanks.

I'm asking this because my creature is at the 2500th something generation but its form remains relatively unchanged. I suspect it has always been increasing its speed without changing the way it moves.

Thank you.

Do any of you guys know hoe to set the brain components and what do them do?

Ive been paying for a while and still cant get how to set them without making my creatures trembble atucked on the origin

How do I change the screen resolution of the simulator?

Hello guys,

As I am very fascinated by the simulator of Lee Graham and the original ideas by Karl Sims, I am trying to write a new simulator which I already made open-source now on github so that the source can never get lost as long as github is up and running:

https://github.com/benelot/minemonics

I would love if you would share some recommendations on user experience improvements you gained from using the 3DVCE simulator. Thx in advance for interesting inputs!

Is there any way to increase the simulation speed of 3DVCE? I seem to be capped at 60 FPS with graphics set for speed, reported by the "G" overlay, and by my calculations I am actually running about 30 "countdown" ticks per second, which I measured using a stopwatch. If I were to try this on a better PC, would this increase the speed of simulation or is there a limit in the software?

I'm new to this program and having some trouble. Right now, when I'm tasked on the 3D Virtual Creature Evolution window, my keyboard input is being ignored. Normally this setting is deactivated by right clicking, but when I right click it moves me like normal. I can't open the menu, go back to the origin point, toggle evolution status, or move by using the keyboard keys for movement. I can however change my movement speed, summon TARDIS, and open TARDIS door. I can't tell if I am summoning anything with the hotkeys because I've zoomed really far away and I can't get back to the origin point, but my guess is that any action that uses only one hotkey is disabled, whereas the ones that require more work just fine. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Hi guys,

I am new to this simulator and I wanted to create a body structure for a creature through L-systems. I already have l-system ready and I wanted to transform it to a creature file, unfortunately, I do not know what the number represent in .creature file. Can anybody tell me ?

Thanks

I already knew for years that his website went down. But recently I had a renewed interest in artificial evolution and thought about contacting the original author of 3dvce and asking nicely for the source code. But the more I researched for an e-mail or some other way of contacting him the more it seemed like he just vanished.

I went into a full on stalker mode, but I couldn't find much about his whereabouts. I know he went to Carleton University in Canada and got his Dr. in Computer Science in 2009 and right around end of 2009 he suddenly disappears, also the last scientific publication by Lee K. Graham is from 2009. From what I found he seemed to be very active on the internet before August~December 2009, he posted in multiple forums either related to his programm (3DVCE) or the International Skeptics. On one website I found (Grassroot Skeptics), it was stated that he is/was employed at the Wesleyan University. (I believe it is him because it is mentioned that he acquired a PhD in Computer Science from Carleton University in 2009, which fits). On the other hand, I read a few times he'd be at the Connecticut College in the USA, but I can neither confirm nor deny any of those claims.

I also found one blog post which mentioned that someone communicated with someone (...) at his earlier academic position and they said he 'left' without more information. What exactly this "academic position" was... I don't know. At another forum I read that his company went broke.(Also no citable source for that one). And I wonder how his disappearance could relate to his company going under. I mean he has a PhD in CS, the chances he'd starve under a bridge are rather slim.

The most interesting piece of info I have is a publication from 2011 where a "Graham, L. Dept. of Comput. Sci., Connecticut Coll., New London, CT, USA " released a paper on "Comparison of a greedy selection operator to tournament selection and a hill climber ", which could fit into his computer/evolution background. There even is an e-mail if you search hard enough. Anyway I have doubt that it's him, in his e-mail address he spells himself "lgraham" and in the publication he's only referred to as "Lee Graham" and not "Lee K. Graham" like it he was in all pre 2009 publications. But now I'm stuck, maybe I'll shoot an e-mail at the address and see what happens.

TLDR: 2008 -> Lee is active on Youtube, Forums, there's some website trouble an he's in Carleton University 2009 -> Last publication I can confirm. He get's his PhD. 2010 -> Website gone, Lee gone 2011 -> Publication which may be him in Connecticut. . . 2014 -> Nothing

Does anybody else know more information? Please post :)

Which operating systems are you running 3dvce on? I have had luck running it on a Mac OS 10.9 system with the newest version of wine and x11. I tried running it on emulated windows xp systems (both 32 and 64 bit) on mac without success. I also tried a 64 bit version of windows 7 under conpatibility mode which resulted in a crashed program. Has anyone tried 3dvce on a Linux system with emulation software?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS18h-_h6IM. This video shows the evolution of a creature over time and a graph of fitness. Does anyone know how to make 3DVCE generate a time lapse of changes over time? I have been able to duplicate the effect but it has been quite time consuming as I have to manually select each creature and record each frame.

Hey people,

I am not sure if anyone still runs this, but I am very interested in helping out with adding/fixing the water feature in this program. You can reach me by email: karlaugsten@gmail.com.