Welcome to ...

Welcome to....

...................Artificial Life

Please note that to get the real benefit of this website, you need to view it through a Java enabled browser.

This site contains:

• Tutorial on ALife
  Step by step tutorial/essay on Artificial Life, what it is, and on how the two simulations housed here work.

• Game of Life Tutorial Introduction
  Introductory page on John Conway's Game of Life,
  Including a list of pages in this section.

• John Conway's Game Of Life Simulation
  Java based implementation of John Conway's Game of Life:
  Includes a link to extended version, in which the user can define their own rules!
  - see cells come alive, as if by magic...

• Boids Tutorial Introduction
  Introductory page to Craig Reynold's Boid Simulation,
  Including list of pages in this section

• Craig Reynold's Boids Simulation
  Java based implementation of Craig Reynold's boid simulation:
  - models the flight of a flock of birds through the use of a few simple rules...

• Links Page
  Links to other Artificial Life websites
  Sorted by category, with a paragraph explaination of each site.

• About
  About the author, the languages used in this site and acknowledgements
  Includes opportunity to download the Java source code for both the extented Game of Life Applet and the Boid Applet...