Evolution of self-replicating cube conglomerations in a simulated 3D environment

Artificial Life 13: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 59-66

  Grouchy, Paul ^a,b   Lipson, Hod ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; GENETIC MATERIALS; RANDOM MUTATION; SELF-REPLICATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONS;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84874697191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31050-5-ch009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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