Re: [Ketm-gg-devel] added my emai addr...

[Walter H. <has...@t-...>]

Hi,

> ever heard of matrem?? its an artifficial life simulator. albeit a
> rather simplistic one. my projet (pytrem) takes the same ideas, but
> ports them to python. basically, you have a board, with different
> terrain on the tiles. the user then creates species, and "plays" each
> specie against each other. the idea is that when you give each specie a
> set of basic, SIMPLE rules, you get some amazingly complex patterns
> appearing. for example, cows tend to heard together, carnivores follow
> the cows around, but dont kill them all, otherwise they would run out of
> food. there are some amasing patterns emerging, and its really fun to
> work with..

sounds interesting. I like the general idea (simple rules, simple 
start-patterns => complex chaos moves) since i saw a implementation of 
"Conway's Game of Life" on my old Sinclair Spectrum nearly 20 years ago.

cu,
Walter