One of my first experiments with Processing that simulates human population growth (starting from one Green Adam and Red Eve), with built in pregnancy, probability, death and life expectancy. Needs lot more tweaking (think proximity, mating behavior, natural disasters etc).
What’re the rules or algorithms? What does each color represent? And the lines?
Hey,
In the (pre-pre-pre) first version above, the rules are actually quite primitive:
Green: Adam
Red: Eve
Yellow: Pregnancy
Black: Death
Black Line: Intercourse
Rules:
Eve chooses randomly from Adams. If she finds a mate, and if she becomes pregnant (there’s probability and randomness attached to both), then there is a chance that she would either bear another Adam or Eve.
All Adams and Eves have life expectancy, age, etc. Eves also have a time limit between which she gets pregnant.
Future updates: proximity, mobility, natural disasters, war, and extreme negative attitude towards intercourse with someone in family tree (which is rampant at the moment, in the beginning at least)!
have you considered rendering this in 3D space? right now the steady state looks all green (!!) but i think there are red dots behind them.
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Matti is a researcher, designer and visual artist working with emerging digital technologies globally. He is currently dayjobbing as a Teaching Fellow in Digital Culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and spends time shuttling between London, Helsinki and the rest of the world.
Soum is a new media technology architect, ex-mixercast founding member, filmmaker, photographer, and a general wanderer who lives partly in London and rest of the time in Mumbai. He builds scalable web sites, dabbles in emerging technologies, and spends rest of his time in various film and photography projects.