[ODE] Fwd: Evolved virtual flight

[Adam Rotaru]

Hi,
I got a message recently about some ALife work
(evolving flight), which uses ODE for physical
simulation.  I thought it might be of interest
to some people here.
cheers,
  Adam

(ps. i asked the author of the work if it is OK to
post this message here)


--- Tim Taylor wrote:
> To: embody@alife.org, <biota-core@lists.ccon.org>
> Subject: [emb] Evolved virtual flight
> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:43:19 +0000 (GMT)
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I was recently contacted by a student from the
> University
> of Korea, Jeff Y. Shim, who has been experimenting
> with
> evolved virtual creatures (using the ODE physics
> simulator).
> Jeff has got some nice examples of evolved flight on
> his
> webpage - as far as I am aware, these are the first
> examples
> of this kind.  It's not an accurate model of
> aerodynamics -
> as far as I understand, it is basically just a
> variation
> of the fluid simulation for evolved swimming, with
> the
> addition of gravity.  The creatures are constructed
> from articulated sticks with rigid sheets in
> between.
> Despite the simplicity, some of the examples look
> surprisingly realistic.
> 
> You can see Jeff's work at
> http://163.152.44.229/research.htm
> 
> Be warned, though, some of the movies are very large
> -
> here are the filesizes:
>      29855744 Air1.avi
>      13574144 Air2.avi
>      47804416 Air3.avi (47MB!)
>      34953216 Air4.avi
>      18946048 Air5.avi
>       4892672 Air6.avi
>       3700736 Air7.avi
>       9637888 Air8.avi
> 
> Air6,7 & 8 are all good examples and relatively
> small
> downloads.  Air4 & 5 and very nice movies with good
> rendering of ground and sky as well.
> 
> Tim



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