[ODE] OT: virtual creatures in games

[Alan Gordie]

I haven't used these myself...yet, however, they appear to be worth looking
into further.  Please share any others that you find as well since I am, as
you, quite interested in evolving self-locomotion in virtual creatures.
Alan

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http://lancet.mit.edu/ga/  (as David[david@csworkbench.com] already pointed
out...)
GAlib contains a set of C++ genetic algorithm objects. The library includes
tools for using genetic algorithms to do optimization in any C++ program
using any representation and genetic operators. The documentation includes
an extensive overview of how to implement a genetic algorithm as well as
examples illustrating customizations to the GAlib classes. 
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http://eodev.sourceforge.net/
EO is a templates-based, ANSI-C++ compliant evolutionary computation
library. It contains classes for almost any kind of evolutionary computation
you might come up to - at least for the ones we could think of. It is
component-based, so that if you don't find the class you need in it, it is
very easy to subclass existing abstract or concrete class. 

--------------------------------------------http://pmdgp.sourceforge.net/
PMDGP (Poor Man's Distributed Genetic Programming) is an object oriented
framework for solving genetic programming problems written in C++. Once a GP
problem has been implemented using the PMDGP framework, the often
computational demanding evaluation of individuals (genetic programs) can be
easily distributed over the network among standard PC's using a GUI
client/server approach utilizing the idle time of client computers. 

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http://www.amygdala.org/
Amygdala is an implementation of a Spiking Neural Network simulator.
Amygdala is still in early stages of development so don't bet your job on
it. This doesn't mean it's useless. Here is a short summary of what's
already in place: 

*Neuron models emphasizing on speed and others with an emphasis on
*biologically accurate modeling 
*Support for SMP machines 
*Evolving neural networks using a Genetic Algorithm 
*Tools to analyze and visualize the topology of the NN 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nate W [mailto:coding@natew.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:08 PM
To: ode@q12.org
Subject: Re: [ODE] OT: virtual creatures in games



Does anyone know of a good library for genetic algorithm project?  

Basically just I want to be able to say, "here's a bunch of [population
of] vectors [representing creature brains] and the fitness value of each
vector, now give me a new bunch of vectors to experiment with."

I tried writing one a while back, but failed.  Any tips would be welcome.

-- 

Nate Waddoups
Redmond WA USA
http://www.natew.com


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