Simon opened up a genetic algorithm game he built about two years ago and made a fascinating discovery: one of the organisms seems to have become immortal! Simon has called his discovery “The Everlasting Vehicle” and saved the vehicle’s DNA.
Links to the game on GiHub:
Original code: https://github.com/simon-tiger/steering-behaviors-evolution
p5.js version: https://simon-tiger.github.io/Game_SteeringBehaviorsEvolution/SteeringBehaviours_EvolutionGame_p5/
Simon writes:
The last time I ran the program is a couple of hours ago. Everything died out, except for one vehicle.
Stats
I have programmed this with a genetic algorithm. They have a DNA with 4 genes.
Attraction/Repulsion to food
Attraction/Repulsion to poison
How far it can see food
How far it can see poison
They also have a health, which goes down over time. If they eat food, then their health goes up, if they eat poison, then their health suddenly goes down. A good health is 1, and a bad one is 0.
So what was The Everlasting Vehicle’s DNA and health?
Property Value
Attraction/Repulsion to food 1.9958444373034823
Attraction/Repulsion to poison 1.3554737395594456
How far it can see food 53.31017416626768
How far it can see poison 23.33902221893798
Average health ~397
So it attracts to poison, yet its health is approximately 397 times bigger than a very good health! And better yet, it even lasted for a couple of hours so far!!!
Credits:
Inspired by Daniel Shiffman’s Evolutionary Steering Behaviors Coding Challenge
Link to the Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flxOkx0yLrY
Geeks out of the box 