Breeders Dev Diary #9 - HUDs @DonWhitaker

Uploaded April 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Another weekly update on my Breeders simulation. This week I worked on the interface and HUDs. The player can now examine and tinker with the 'dna' of individual creatures and see how the new stats effect future generations.

New playable version for Mac and Windows coming on May 3rd!

Karl Sims, Evolved Virtual Creatures: youtube.com/watch?v=JBgG_VSP7f8

Breeders is a simulation of life based on physics and simple rules. It's an exploration of emergent behaviour, evolution and the therapeutic effects of tossing around large numbers of physically simulated objects. (^_^) Subscribe to this channel for more updates. youtube.com/KitchenDon

More info and an old, playable version of the simulation here: brainblinks.com/?p=545

$Spherical Video test 2 Another test of a 360 panoramic video made in my favorite 3D fractal app, Mandelbulb 3D. This is intended for use with the Total Cinema 360 player - even better if you also have an Oculus Rift. :) Looks pretty nifty in a normal video player, too. Grab the 360 player here: http://totalcinema360.com/index.html Grab the MP4 version of the video here: https://archive.org/download/fata-360/fata-360.mp4 This one is not quite as interesting as my first test but there are a few nice sections so Ill share it. Trying out some morphing of the shapes combined with the moving camera. Too much variation in the speed of the camera movement, makes me unsteady on my feet while watching. First test video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHg7h7DXerw$

$Neural Zoom (poppy) Tinkering with Neural Style Transfer. Zooming in and feeding the results back into the style transfer creates a fractal-like level of increasing detail. New details emerge from the pixel soup at the center of the zoom - feels like the the network is dreaming. :) This video is also part of my Daily Doodle series on BrainBlinks.com. Lots of Neural Style experiments and other digital WTFery. Neural Style Transfer: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576 Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com$

3 minute Universe : Chunky Orbits v1.0 trailer

$Fractal Forest on Kickstarter - 3D printable plants and props More info at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/donwhitaker/fractal-forest-3d-printable-models?ref=9h13ra Im creating a collection of 3D-printable plants, trees, and props for tabletop gaming. These are fantasy and sci-fi plants that could easily fit into your Warhammer, D&D, Pathfinder, or Star Wars campaigns. The plants and props are collected around a Fractal theme with swirling limbs, repeating patterns, and intricate details. Many of the props were even created using fractal math. Exotic, organic shapes extracted from the fractal multiverse. Fully funded in 3 days! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/donwhitaker/fractal-forest-3d-printable-models?ref=9h13ra music by Bob Hates Frank https://soundcloud.com/bob-hates-frank$ $Journey to the Cathedral This is a combination slideshow/timelapse that shows the process I went through when I created the Cathedral image I posted here the other day. This was about about 80 minutes in realtime. Its interesting that I spent nearly half the session tuning the lights and framing after I found my spot. I spent several more hours after this creating the four large images that you see at the end of the video. Take a closer look at the Cathedral: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QvSH16-VlA Music is a Creative Commons licensed track called Could Be by CSoul and other Mixters Jenny Mayhem, Jesse Taylor, djolliej, Kirkoid, Tigoolio. http://ccmixter.org/files/CSoul/40340 Watch all of my 3D Fractal Vids: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBA14567494C6C3C2&feature=view_all Become a Mandelnaut! Learn to make your own fractals with my tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL67453435CBFEDB49&feature=view_all Subscribe to my channel for more fractal videos, tutorials and who knows what. http://www.youtube.com/user/kitchendon$

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Breeders Dev Diary #9 - HUDs