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Playing a 3D Game of Life in an Interactive Virtual Sandbox

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Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 2005)

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We propose a novel artificial-life-oriented media art “RomperSand”, which applies a three-dimensional version of the Game of Life (GoL) CA for the construction of an interactive virtual playground. In RomperSand, two distinct sets of state-transition rules are combined together: one for simulating physically plausible motion of virtual sand particles and the other for realizing the GoL-like dynamic behavior of living structures. Players can operate several virtual tools to create, destroy, and interact with these structures. The system was implemented as a Windows application and was tested by several users, gaining positive appreciations from them.

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  1. Dept. of Human Communication, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

    Daisuke Ogihara & Hiroki Sayama

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  1. Natural Computation Group, University of Kent, CT2 7NF, Canterbury, UK

    Mathieu S. Capcarrère

  2. Computing Laboratory and Centre for BioMedical Informatics, University of Kent, CT2 7NF, Canterbury, UK

    Alex A. Freitas

  3. Computer Science Department, University College London, London, UK

    Peter J. Bentley

  4. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Colin G. Johnson

  5. Department of Electronics, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

    Jon Timmis

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Ogihara, D., Sayama, H. (2005). Playing a 3D Game of Life in an Interactive Virtual Sandbox. In: Capcarrère, M.S., Freitas, A.A., Bentley, P.J., Johnson, C.G., Timmis, J. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3630. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11553090_49

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