JohnnyVon View a self-replicating automata in a continuous two-dimensional space
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View a self-replicating automata in a continuous two-dimensional space JohnnyVon is a free and open source implementation of a self-replicating automata in continuous two-dimensional space. Two types of particles drift about in a virtual liquid. The particles are automata with discrete internal states but continuous external relationships. Their internal states are governed by finite state machines but their external relationships are governed by a simulated physics that includes Brownian motion, viscosity, and spring-like attractive and repulsive forces. The particles can be assembled into patterns that can encode arbitrary strings of bits. If an arbitrary "seed" pattern is put in a "soup" separate individual particles, the pattern will replicate by assembling the individual particles into copies of itself. We also show that, given sufficient time, a soup of separate individual particles will eventually spontaneously form self-replicating patterns. JohnnyVon has implications for research in nanotechnology, theoretical biology, and artificial life. Requirements: · Java What's New in This Release: · This is the version associated with the images in the second tech report (still in development.)

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