For my final I decided to continue my “Male Female” code by adding food, reproduction, and genetic algorithms. Here are some of the basic rules I am imagining:

1. Male and Females are attracted to each other
1. Sex drive makes them seek more
2. Charm makes them be more successful in pairing up
2. They eat
1. The more they eat the slower they get
2. If they don’t eat enough, they don’t make it to the mating area
3. They can only mate in certain areas (migration)
1. They only go to the migration areas when they are paired up
2. Going to mating areas requires energy and makes them hungry
3. If they get too hungry they give up on mating
4. They need food to have enough energy to get the mating areas
1. Some animals can hold more food than others
5. Once they mate, they die
6. Kids inherit the properties of the parents with a bit of mutation

Properties or DNA:

1. Appetite vs. Sex drive
2. Stomach size vs. Charm

Today we had the privilege of having Jonathan Harris talk to us during Nature of Code class.

He is a Computer Scientist/Artist who has done some amazing work mainly focused on data aggregation and visualization.

These were my favorite two:

Universe – an interface that looks at news on the internet
We Feel Fine – an aggregator of blog entries that talk about how the blogger feels

In the light of that, I am going to use this blog entry to test his software…

I feel amazed and in awe of the human creativity, where we think everything has been invented and then someone shows up with a brand new way of looking at the world.

Let’s see if We Feel Fine catches this entry 🙂