Biotopes
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Open populations evolving bodies and brains. A creature is a set of sensors, a hidden layer and a set of things it can do, and NONE of it is assigned: a founder is drawn at random, and every birth may add a sensor, drop one, widen its reach, grow a node, or gain and lose the ability to act at all. What survives is whatever pays for itself. The world it happens in is an energy economy. Energy gathers in the ground, creatures feed, breed, starve and eat each other. There are no plants: staying put and living off what gathers where you stand is a way of living, not a kind of thing. Every island runs the SAME physics and differs only in the random draw it started from, so whether they drift apart is the question this fleet exists to ask. Nothing here is a simulation of anything: the rules are about energy, and every role you can see was counted afterwards rather than assigned.
Connected, and no island has said anything yet. Either none is running, or they are publishing on a different realm or namespace.
Each island publishes counts once a second and a picture more often. The site subscribes and draws; it holds no world of its own and shares no code with the islands. What you see is the last frame that arrived.