Automatic Mechanical Self Replication (Part 2), Lionel Penrose, 1961 Tim Taylor 2020-05-20 | Demonstrations of Lionel Penrose's early explorations of mechanical self-replication using cleverly designed wooden units. This film was produced in 1961 by H.A. Cresswell. Further information can be found in Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin's book "Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve", Springer, 2020 -- see book details at http://www.tim-taylor.com/selfrepbookThe other film in this series, Part 1 (filmed in 1958), can be found at youtu.be/12HfFvjSAHc
Weird Tales: Early Visions of Machines That Can Reproduce and Evolve, and Their Relevance Today Tim Taylor 2021-07-20 | This is a prerecorded version of Tim Taylor's keynote talk presented at the 2021 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2021) on Monday 19 July, 2021 (https://www.robot100.cz/alife2021/). The talk is based upon the book "Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve" by Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin (Springer, 2020). Further details about the book can be found at tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook/. The book explores the very early history of the idea of machines, AI and robots that are capable of self-reproduction and evolution. In the talk, Tim focuses in particular on the development of ideas over the period from the 1840s to the 1960s.The full live talk including Q&As is available at youtu.be/najEbqtgat0
Automatic Mechanical Self Replication (Part 1), Lionel Penrose, 1958 Tim Taylor 2020-05-20 | Demonstrations of Lionel Penrose's early explorations of mechanical self-replication using cleverly designed wooden units. This film was produced in 1958 by H.A. Cresswell. Further information can be found in Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin's book "Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve", Springer, 2020 -- see book details at http://www.tim-taylor.com/selfrepbookThe other film in this series, Part 2 (filmed in 1961), can be found at youtu.be/hQ6T_TY3JA4
OEE3 Open Discussion Session Tim Taylor 2018-08-06 | General discussion session at end of workshop, open to all participants and attendees.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
Two Modes of Evolution: Optimization and Expansion (presented by Steen Rasmussen) Tim Taylor 2018-08-06 | Presentation of the paper "Two Modes of Evolution: Optimization and Expansion" by Steen Rasmussen and Paolo Sibani.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
Cardinality Leap for Open-Ended Evolution (presented by Hiroki Sayama) Tim Taylor 2018-08-06 | Presentation of the paper "Cardinality Leap for Open-Ended Evolution: Theoretical Consideration and Demonstration by 'Hash Chemistry'" by Hiroki Sayama.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
OEE3 Session 3 Discussion Tim Taylor 2018-08-06 | Brief Q&A session with speakers from Session 3 (David Ackley, Alastair Channon, Norman Packard, Alyssa Adams).The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
Possible Open-Ended Strategy Selection in League of Legends (presented by Alyssa M. Adams) Tim Taylor 2018-08-06 | Short presentation of the poster "Possible Open-Ended Strategy Selection in League of Legends" by Alyssa M. Adams.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
Detecting the on-going emergence of technological innovations (presented by Norman Packard) Tim Taylor 2018-08-06 | Presentation of the paper "Detecting the on-going emergence of technological innovations" by Mark A. Bedau, Nicholas Gigliotti, Tobias Janssen, Alec Kosik, Ananthan Nambiar and Norman Packard.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
Further Investigations into Indefinite Scalability in Geb (presented by Alastair Channon) Tim Taylor 2018-08-06 | Presentation of the paper "Further Investigations into Indefinite Scalability in Geb" by Alastair Channon.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
Finding life in the shadows (presented by David H. Ackley) Tim Taylor 2018-08-06 | Presentation of the paper "Finding life in the shadows" by David H. Ackley and Elena S. Ackley.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
OEE3 Session 2 Discussion Tim Taylor 2018-08-06 | Brief Q&A session with speakers from Session 2 (Michael Wiser, Matthew Moreno, Takashi Ikegami, Peter Turney)The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
Conditions for Major Transitions in Biological and Cultural Evolution (presented by Peter D. Turney) Tim Taylor 2018-08-06 | Short presentation of the poster "Conditions for Major Transitions in Biological and Cultural Evolution" by Peter D. Turney.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
How Novelty is Created in a Web Service (presented by Takashi Ikegami) Tim Taylor 2018-08-05 | Presentation of the paper "How Novelty is Created in a Web Service" by Takashi Ikegami, Mizuki Oka and Yasuhiro Hashimoto.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
Understanding Fraternal Transitions in Individuality (presented by Matthew Andres Moreno) Tim Taylor 2018-08-05 | Presentation of the paper "Understanding Fraternal Transitions in Individuality" by Matthew Andres Moreno and Charles Ofria.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
The Boundedness Illusion (presented by Michael J. Wiser) Tim Taylor 2018-08-05 | Presentation of the paper "The Boundedness Illusion: Projections from early evolution can underestimate evolutionary potential" by Michael J Wiser, Emily L Dolson, Anya Vostinar, Richard E Lenski and Charles Ofria.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
OEE3 Session 1 Discussion Tim Taylor 2018-08-05 | Brief Q&A session with speakers from Session 1 (Hiroki Sayama, Tim Taylor, Josh Bongard)The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
The Role of Embodiment in Open-Ended Evolution (presented by Josh Bongard) Tim Taylor 2018-08-05 | Presentation of the paper "The Role of Embodiment in Open-Ended Evolution" by Josh Bongard, Nick Cheney, Zahra Mahoor and Joshua Powers.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
Routes to Open-Endedness in Evolutionary Systems (presented by Tim Taylor) Tim Taylor 2018-08-05 | Presentation of the paper "Routes to Open-Endedness in Evolutionary Systems" by Tim Taylor.The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
Evolved Open-Endedness, Not Open-Ended Evolution (presented by Hiroki Sayama) Tim Taylor 2018-08-05 | Presentation of the paper "Evolved Open-Endedness, Not Open-Ended Evolution" by Howard H. Pattee and Hiroki SayamaThe Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
OEE3 Workshop Introduction (presented by Alastair Channon and Tim Taylor) Tim Taylor 2018-08-05 | Introduction to the workshop, presented by Alastair Channon and Tim Taylor. The Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) took place at the 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018) on 25 July 2018, in Tokyo. For further information, including links to presented papers, see http://www.alife.org/workshops/oee3
EvoBee simulation example: the effect of greenhouse layout of crops on pollination success Tim Taylor 2017-10-06 | Demo output of the EvoBee simulation of bee pollination investigating the relationship between layouts of crops and weeds in greenhouses, and the resulting rate of pollination of the crops. In the video the crops are the blue circles (arranged in four long rows in this case) and the weeds are the red cicles (arranged in two rows along the long edges of the greenhouse). The bees (moving dots with trails) have some level of flower constancy behaviour - that is, after visiting a flower of one species, they are more likely to visit another flower of the same species next.Work by Tim Taylor (Monash University), Alan Dorin (Monash University) and Adrian Dyer (RMIT).The simulator code is available at github.com/tim-taylor/evobee (NB the simulation in this video has been slowed down for visualisation purposes!)
EvoBee simulation example: 2 species, 1-way pollen clogging Tim Taylor 2017-10-06 | Demo output of the EvoBee simulation of bee pollination of two plant species (the red and blue dots), where the pollen of one species (red) clogs the other species. The simulation consists of a number of foraging bouts of bees (trails in the visualisation show the path of each bee, and the red and blue flowers change to grey squares when they are pollinated. At the end of each foraging bout, a new population of red and blue plants is generated, based upon the pollinated seeds from the previous generation. After a small number of generations the red plants achieve fixation in the population (completely wiping out the blue plants), because of the asymmetrical pollen clogging.Work by Tim Taylor (Monash University), Alan Dorin (Monash University) and Adrian Dyer (RMIT).The simulator code is available at github.com/tim-taylor/evobee (NB the simulation in this video has been slowed down for visualisation purposes!)
Omnigram Explorer: Cleveland Heart Disease Data Set (Single Node Brushing mode) Tim Taylor 2015-03-15 | Demonstration of using Omnigram Explorer in Single Node Brushing mode on the Cleveland Heart Disease Data Set to investigate correlations between variables in the data. For more information, see http://www.tim-taylor.com/omnigram
Omnigram Explorer: Example of Brushing (Single Node Brushing mode) Tim Taylor 2015-03-15 | A quick demonstration of using brushing in Omnigram Explorer (Single Node Brushing mode) to investigate correlations between variables. See http://www.tim-taylor.com/omnigram for more information.
Omnigram Explorer: Introduction Tim Taylor 2014-12-12 | An introductory tour of the Omnigram Explorer tool. See http://www.tim-taylor.com/omnigram for more information.
SoundLife Tim Taylor 2013-06-30 | This is a demo app for live analysis of a sound file to drive Game of Life dynamics. The sound spectrum of the audio is analysed in a number of frequency ranges. Each column on the Game of Life grid corresponds to a certain frequency range (low frequencies to the left, high to the right). If the amplitude of the sound in a given range exceeds a threshold, a square in the corresponding column is switched on. Which square in the column is switched on depends on the amplitude of the sound in that frequency range, with a scaling factor that can be changed by moving the mouse up and down.Moving the mouse from left to right controls how many frequency bands are sampled. With the mouse on the far left, the maximum number of bands are sampled, so that every column can potentially be affected by the sound. As the mouse is moved to the right, fewer bands are sampled, and hence fewer columns are affected by the sound; the columns that do correspond to sampled ranges are always spread out equally from left to right.This app was developed as an exercise for the Coursera course Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps (class.coursera.org/digitalmedia-001)The app was written in Processing, making use of demo code provided on the course (PlotFFTOnScreenDesktop) together with Game of Life code written by Jeffrey Guy (http://www.jjguy.com/life/). The audio was obtained from http://www.freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/71150/.
Seahorse Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Eel Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Long-Nosed Snake Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Worm Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Two-Legged Swimmer Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Hammerhead Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Tadpole Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Flipper Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Corkscrew 2 Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Flipper-Snake Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Dolphin-Snake Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Corkscrew 1 Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Breaststroke Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved swimming creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Spider Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved crawling creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Crab-Dog Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved crawling creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Arrowhead Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved crawling creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Crab Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved crawling creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
Archer Tim Taylor 2013-01-10 | An evolved crawling creature.See http://tim-taylor.com/demos/mathengine for more details.
MathEngine Evolved Creatures Compilation Tim Taylor 2009-12-11 | Examples of evolved creatures from Tim Taylor and Colm Massey's work in evolving body morphology and controllers for 3D virtual creatures at MathEngine (1999-2000).For a technical description, see the paper: Tim Taylor and Colm Massey. "Recent Developments in the Evolution of Morphologies and Controllers for Physically Simulated Creatures". Artificial Life vol. 7(1). pp. 77-87. (2001)
EvoCA-B Tim Taylor 2009-12-11 | EvoCA-B results: natural selection leading to self-stablising dynamics.See http://www.tim-taylor.com/papers/rboe for details.
EvoCA-A results #2 Tim Taylor 2009-12-11 | EvoCA-A results #2: evolution of complex dynamics to solve problem with a higher score.See http://www.tim-taylor.com/papers/rboe for details.
EvoCA-A results #1 Tim Taylor 2009-12-11 | EvoCA-A results #1: evolution of gliders to solve problem.See http://www.tim-taylor.com/papers/rboe for details.
