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Introduction:
This is an exploration game where you select creatures
and watch them evolve. There is no goal, no winning or losing. You may stop
playing whenever you like.In
the applet window above, you should see a breeder with five possible
descendants. The breeder is shown on the large window, the descendants are on
the small windows. A descendant inherits all of the breeder's genes, except that one
of the genes is altered. The gene alteration causes different looks between the
descendants; however, you will notice that a descendant will always bear some resemblance
to its breeder, no matter how small those resemblance are.
Click the descendant that you like
the most, and that descendant will breed and become the breeder of the next
generation. Keep doing this, and you may eventually end up with a completely
different creature than the one you start with. This illustrates an evolution
process,
where cumulative small changes, carried over time, will eventually make a big
difference. (Darwinian evolution is called natural selections, or survival of
the fittest. What is illustrated here is an unnatural selections or cumulative selections.)
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Additional Features |
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- After the fifth generation,
the Evolution History button will be enabled. Clicking this button will suspend the
breeding mode, and you will see animations showing the evolution of the biomorph - up to
the current generation.
- Use the Monochrome mode
unless you have a fast machine.
- To see sample biomorph
creatures, click here.
- To see a biomorph animation, click here.
- If you have a larger
screen, you may try this larger screen version.
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Version History |
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(10-98) Added Evolution History button. Monochrome mode is now
changed to plain-green, as opposed to shades-of-green to make rendering faster.
(6-98) Added color
mode. Fix repainting bug.
(12-97) Initial version.
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Background & Acknowledgement |
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The Biomorph theory is created by Richard Dawkins,
and is presented in Dawkins' book The Blind Watchmaker. Mr Dawkins.
is a professor at Oxford University in England. Reference: Dawkins, Richard.
The Blind Watchmaker. New York: W. W. Norton. 1987.
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See Also:
Biomorph
Animation |
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This Java applet is © Copyright 1997-2010, F. Permadi
Applet programmed by F. Permadi
permadi@permadi.com
This applet is copyrighted and
may not be used/placed on other websites.
This applet may not be distributed in any medium without express
written permission from the author.
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