VIRTUAL MENAGERIE. “The creatures of artificial life already make up a strange menagerie. There are flocking birds and schooling fish just a few generations removed from the cartoons of Walt Disney. Invisible bugs breed and die out as they leave trails through a mound of electronic food. Computer flowers bud and unfold, their timing controlled by computer chemicals running up and down computer stems. Stick-figure shapes evolve in a few dozen generations into startling butterflies and shellfish.”
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