Stunning octopus camouflage footage shot by Roger Hanlon. See also:
Hanlon, R.T., 2007. Cephalopod dynamic camouflage. Current Biology 17 (11): 400-404. (PDF)
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a collaborative tumblelog about science, art, and artificial life.
Jun 02
Posted by j4mie
May 30
Posted by nmather
May 28
Posted by nmather
Cellular automaton music sequencer for the Nindendo DS.
From the video it’s hard to tell how the CA relates to the music, but it sounds pretty great… so you gotta assume there’s quite a bit of human intervention.
May 26
Posted by nmather
» No Cost for Complexity
“The findings… shed doubt on a creationist criticism of evolution: that adaptation must rapidly slow as creatures grow more complicated, making them less able to adapt to changing conditions.”@wired.com
Posted by nmather
» Lego Difference Engine
“…I set out to build a working Difference Engine using standard LEGO parts which could compute 2nd or 3rd order polynomials to 3 or 4 digits.”
Fair enough.
via reddit.com
May 25
Posted by nmather
» EASy-related video lectures
In case you’re missing having lectures: …videos of lectures!
Subtopics include:
- Evolutionary Computation/Swarm Intelligence
- Robotics
- Intelligent Agents
- Machine Learning
- Complexity Science
- Artificial Intelligence
via reddit.com
May 24
Posted by j4mie
» Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans
“Life has been found 1.6 kilometres beneath the sea floor, at temperatures reaching 100 °C.” via richarddawkins.net
May 22
Posted by j4mie
» Meet the biomimetic jumping microrobot
“Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL are unveiling a novel, grasshopper-inspired jumping robot at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation today in Pasadena, California. The robot weighs a miniscule 7 grams, and can jump 1.4 meters, or more than 27 times its body size — ten times farther for its size and weight than any existing jumping robot.”
This work was presented at an Alergic seminar at Sussex a few months ago.
May 21
Posted by fjeanson
» Evidence of evolution in the stickleback.
Thick scales are pigmented in dark brown above or dark purple below. News via http://news.nationalgeographic.com
May 14
Posted by j4mie
Not Your Mom’s Spider Bot. via Suicide Bots
