Darwin Pond - free download
Darwin Pond is an imaginary gene pool, a primordial puddle of genetic surprises. More technically, Darwin Pond is an Artificial Life Simulation: a virtual world exhibiting the emergence of life-like behaviors. But it’s more than just a fun and informative thing to watch, you can participate in this artificial life simulation by building scenarios and setting up experiments.
Darwin Pond is inhabited by hundreds of wiggly things called “swimmers”. In a way, you could say these swimmers perform tiny histories of the evolution of swimming in the earth’s waters by genetically “discovering” ways to get around. They do this by evolving their anatomies and motions over many generations. This is why this imaginary body of water is named “Darwin Pond”, named in honor of Charles Darwin, whose scientific work and eloquence in explaining the origin of species created a revolution.
Darwin Pond sounds a little bit like Walden Pond. That’s on purpose - Henry David Thoreau’s Walden was an influence on me at a young age, when I was learning to watch, wonder, and learn from nature. Darwin Pond is for nature lovers, who spend countless hours (or a lifetime) meditating on the wonders and intricacies of life unfolding.
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