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Evolution and Internet Sharing Sims / First unusual thing: INMORTAL BOT???

« on: August 30, 2006, 08:31:22 AM »

So, it was no inmortal, Simply a fat lazy boy burning it´s own fat reservers very slowly, jajaj INTERESTING!!!

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Biology / Spores?

« on: August 30, 2006, 08:27:51 AM »

THANKS!!! Something to start working on...

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Evolution and Internet Sharing Sims / First unusual thing: INMORTAL BOT???

« on: August 29, 2006, 09:44:17 PM »

I don´t know if this is a bug or something more interesting but I have seen an inmortal bot using version 2.37.6

It was a single cell bot evolved from a CERBERUS.

It moves straight in the direction of its eye a does NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING and when I look at its stas I noticed that when energy falls to 1000 it goes back to 1300 and so on!!!" Even when it was atacked by several other bots.

 I Think that I have not saved the simulation,but if I can get the DNA I will post it.

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Biology / Spores?

« on: August 29, 2006, 08:37:30 PM »

It's not really a spore, more a super resistant bot being a bit lazy!

Easy enough to do though, take a working bot and decide on your conditions to become a 'spore', something simple like (*.eye5 0 =) will do to show how it would work.

All the genes in your working bot now need the extra condition (*.eye5 0 !=) so that they become inactive when your 'spore' conditions are met and only work when the condition is not met.

You then have a bot that will do nothing when its 'spore' condition is met and can add another gene to tell the bot what to do when it is a spore. (100 .mkshell maybe but this costs energy!)

Thanks Jez

Making a shell is quite expensive in energy terms for any bacteria, so I guess it should have to be steh same for DBots, but I did not know that there was already a command or intructions in gene languaje to create it, so my first question is not very relevant.

Much more interesting is selecting a condition to become a spore:

Sensing its own energy reserves?

Sensing the energy reserves of other individuals of the same species? It is called Quorum Sensing in biology

Is there any way that a Bots can send this information to another?

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Biology / Spores?

« on: August 29, 2006, 07:50:48 AM »

Thanks, but I have no idea how to transform this ideas into actual "genes". I guess  I should start reeding the guides...

Any idea if there is any bot with similar characteristics?

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Biology / Costs and energy usage.

« on: August 28, 2006, 05:05:03 PM »

total newbie question!!!

The nergy cost is calculated for the total amoun t of genes or for the genes that are activated each cicle?

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Biology / Sexrepro (Real Life) questions

« on: August 28, 2006, 04:58:40 PM »

How come sperm don't asexually reproduce themselves. Wouldn't that make it more likely that their own individual traits would be passed along the line?

Basically there are two types of cell division MEIOSIS and MITHOSIS. The first produces cells with one copy of each chromosome from mother cells with the two copies, thats the way sperm cells are made. As they have ONE copy of each chromosome they can no longer make Meiosis. They could still make mithosis but for that they should make a copy of every one of their chromosomes and they simply do not have enough energy to do that, they are built to the sole purpose of swiming

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Biology / Spores?

« on: August 28, 2006, 04:48:58 PM »

Is there any way a DBots can make a structure like a spore?

BAsically:

VERY low methabolism (energy cost)

no active search for food

resistant to the attack of other bots

very slow or no locomotion at all

no reproduction

ready to go back to the active form when it comes across an anergy source

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Newbie / Hi there

« on: August 28, 2006, 12:08:30 PM »

Thaks! I will try that. Are there any modifications needed for use the code with version 2.37.7b???

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Newbie / Hi there

« on: August 27, 2006, 04:41:51 PM »

Hello

I am a biochemist from Argentina. I have found DBots recently and it seems very interesting. I tried some boring simulations with the default bots but I would like to try some of the ones that are posted in the BESTIARY section but I cant donwload them. I tried "save target as" already and left clicking but nothing. How can in download them?

Thak You