Biotope history
What the creatures are becoming, and the ecology they are becoming it in, sampled from what the islands published. Drawn against the world's own tick.
beam00
240 samples · ticks 1086773 to 1098404Is it still finding new ways to live
A creature's KIND is what it was built with; its WAY OF LIVING is what it did with it. The left line only rises. The right one falls, and zero means this island has stopped discovering while its population carries on perfectly healthily. Over 32 seeds the median island reaches zero by tick 6,000, which is a finding about these rules rather than a fault of any island.
ways of living found
of 125, and it can only rise
values
| lowest | 98 |
| highest | 100 |
| latest | 98 |
| ticks | 1086773 to 1098404 |
new ways lately
first seen in the last thousand ticks · zero is a settled world
values
| lowest | 0 |
| highest | 1 |
| latest | 0 |
| ticks | 1086773 to 1098404 |
What the creatures are becoming
The experiment, and it goes first. Everything below this describes an ecology, which is the medium rather than the subject: these islands exist to ask whether brains and bodies evolve. Nothing assigns any of it. A founder is drawn at random and every birth may add a sensor, drop one, widen its reach, grow a hidden node, or gain and lose the ability to act.
sensors per creature
what it costs them to measure the world
values
| lowest | 2.12 |
| highest | 10 |
| latest | 3.01 |
| ticks | 1086773 to 1098404 |
hidden nodes per creature
leaving zero is the difference between reflex and deliberation
live wires per node
a brain getting cheaper and one getting simpler look alike without this
values
| lowest | 0.0 |
| highest | 10 |
| latest | 4.9 |
| ticks | 1086773 to 1098404 |
distinct kinds alive
architectures, not ancestors: founder lines reads 1 either way
values
| lowest | 3 |
| highest | 50 |
| latest | 5 |
| ticks | 1086773 to 1098404 |
The ecology they are becoming it in
creatures
values
| lowest | 24 |
| highest | 500 |
| latest | 78 |
| ticks | 1086773 to 1098404 |
energy in the ground
values
| lowest | 91617 |
| highest | 1000000 |
| latest | 172218 |
| ticks | 1086773 to 1098404 |
burnt as heat
the Second Law: this can only rise
values
| lowest | 7398415652 |
| highest | 10000000000 |
| latest | 7474172923 |
| ticks | 1086773 to 1098404 |
- creatures
- 78
- kinds
- 5
- ways of living
- 98
- new lately
- 0
- in the ground
- 172218
- starved
- 1202224
- of old age
- 733
beam01
240 samples · ticks 1171222 to 1185211Is it still finding new ways to live
A creature's KIND is what it was built with; its WAY OF LIVING is what it did with it. The left line only rises. The right one falls, and zero means this island has stopped discovering while its population carries on perfectly healthily. Over 32 seeds the median island reaches zero by tick 6,000, which is a finding about these rules rather than a fault of any island.
ways of living found
of 125, and it can only rise
values
| lowest | 101 |
| highest | 200 |
| latest | 101 |
| ticks | 1171222 to 1185211 |
new ways lately
first seen in the last thousand ticks · zero is a settled world
values
| lowest | 0 |
| highest | 1 |
| latest | 0 |
| ticks | 1171222 to 1185211 |
What the creatures are becoming
The experiment, and it goes first. Everything below this describes an ecology, which is the medium rather than the subject: these islands exist to ask whether brains and bodies evolve. Nothing assigns any of it. A founder is drawn at random and every birth may add a sensor, drop one, widen its reach, grow a hidden node, or gain and lose the ability to act.
sensors per creature
what it costs them to measure the world
values
| lowest | 4.85 |
| highest | 10 |
| latest | 8.0 |
| ticks | 1171222 to 1185211 |
hidden nodes per creature
leaving zero is the difference between reflex and deliberation
live wires per node
a brain getting cheaper and one getting simpler look alike without this
values
| lowest | 0.0 |
| highest | 20 |
| latest | 10.0 |
| ticks | 1171222 to 1185211 |
distinct kinds alive
architectures, not ancestors: founder lines reads 1 either way
values
| lowest | 3 |
| highest | 50 |
| latest | 4 |
| ticks | 1171222 to 1185211 |
The ecology they are becoming it in
creatures
values
| lowest | 26 |
| highest | 200 |
| latest | 39 |
| ticks | 1171222 to 1185211 |
energy in the ground
values
| lowest | 83648 |
| highest | 500000 |
| latest | 150900 |
| ticks | 1171222 to 1185211 |
burnt as heat
the Second Law: this can only rise
values
| lowest | 8238867318 |
| highest | 10000000000 |
| latest | 8331086067 |
| ticks | 1171222 to 1185211 |
- creatures
- 39
- kinds
- 4
- ways of living
- 101
- new lately
- 0
- in the ground
- 150900
- starved
- 1226929
- of old age
- 998
beam03
240 samples · ticks 1171826 to 1185988Is it still finding new ways to live
A creature's KIND is what it was built with; its WAY OF LIVING is what it did with it. The left line only rises. The right one falls, and zero means this island has stopped discovering while its population carries on perfectly healthily. Over 32 seeds the median island reaches zero by tick 6,000, which is a finding about these rules rather than a fault of any island.
ways of living found
of 125, and it can only rise
values
| lowest | 98 |
| highest | 100 |
| latest | 98 |
| ticks | 1171826 to 1185988 |
new ways lately
first seen in the last thousand ticks · zero is a settled world
values
| lowest | 0 |
| highest | 1 |
| latest | 0 |
| ticks | 1171826 to 1185988 |
What the creatures are becoming
The experiment, and it goes first. Everything below this describes an ecology, which is the medium rather than the subject: these islands exist to ask whether brains and bodies evolve. Nothing assigns any of it. A founder is drawn at random and every birth may add a sensor, drop one, widen its reach, grow a hidden node, or gain and lose the ability to act.
sensors per creature
what it costs them to measure the world
values
| lowest | 3.13 |
| highest | 10 |
| latest | 4.14 |
| ticks | 1171826 to 1185988 |
hidden nodes per creature
leaving zero is the difference between reflex and deliberation
live wires per node
a brain getting cheaper and one getting simpler look alike without this
values
| lowest | 0.0 |
| highest | 10 |
| latest | 6.86 |
| ticks | 1171826 to 1185988 |
distinct kinds alive
architectures, not ancestors: founder lines reads 1 either way
values
| lowest | 3 |
| highest | 50 |
| latest | 14 |
| ticks | 1171826 to 1185988 |
The ecology they are becoming it in
creatures
values
| lowest | 36 |
| highest | 200 |
| latest | 82 |
| ticks | 1171826 to 1185988 |
energy in the ground
values
| lowest | 98958 |
| highest | 500000 |
| latest | 231470 |
| ticks | 1171826 to 1185988 |
burnt as heat
the Second Law: this can only rise
values
| lowest | 8076185050 |
| highest | 10000000000 |
| latest | 8171374217 |
| ticks | 1171826 to 1185988 |
- creatures
- 82
- kinds
- 14
- ways of living
- 98
- new lately
- 0
- in the ground
- 231470
- starved
- 1307456
- of old age
- 781
35731 samples held. This is a read model: it is rebuilt from the facts that arrive and can be deleted without losing anything, because the islands are the things that are actually alive. Rows older than thirty days are pruned.