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Mutating Animations

Posted by michael on from the learning-to-fly-but-i-ain't-got-wings dept.

Weird_one writes "Discover magazine's current issue has an intriguing article involving using genetic algorithims to evolve an animation of a walking individual."

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  1. These must be stopped! by questamor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Genetic algorithms must be stopped, and NOW

    Who knows how soon it will be before these things gain the ability to work in the real world. It won't be long I tell you, before you look around and the entire PLANET will be full of these devilish unnatural creatures, all based on GENETICS.

  2. Jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I think I'll still have to wait like 20 years for that.

    Not if you listen to Steve Jobs in senile old age...
    "This 2.0 GHz G6 runs at 1000 times the performance of an 8.9 GHz Pentium X!"

  3. Heathens! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Evolution is a fraud made up by the godless devil-worshippin' computer scientists! Only God has the power of algorithm creation! The Bible clearly states in John 24:5 that God is the creator of the binary search, the hash table, the half-adder, the for loop, and matrix multiplication! You will all burn in Hell!

  4. Better 3D CG porn by BurningTyger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes.... now they can finally make better 3D CG porn now that they can simulate and even teach computer how to have sex in better ways and different positions. Hey, isn't the whole point of "EVOLUTION" to "REPRODUCE" more offsprings??

  5. If Microsoft starts using these algorithms... by yelohbird · · Score: 2, Funny

    then will we get smarter OSs that learn to blue-screen all by themselves?

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  6. crawling or doing somersaults by aardwolf204 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We got some creatures that didn't walk at all but had these very strange ways of moving forward: crawling or doing somersaults."

    #include beer.h

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