GACL - Genetic Algorithms in Conwawy's Life

by David Rodrigues; version 0.9a

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Description

The above applet shows the Genetic Algorithm of a population of Conway's Life Cellular Automata!

The 3 boards are:

The legend corresponds to:

Fitness

The fitness function used is the Mutual Information of consecutive states. The fitness function is one of the measures that can be used to identify interesting dynamics in cellular automata (for example)

Population

The population is composed by 20 Life CAs with 192 automata width. They are evolved for 40 timesteps and at the end the value of the Mutual Information of consecutive states is taken as the fitness value.

A one-point crossover is applied and a mutation factor of 1% is applied to the generation+1!