RIP 500 slowest creatures, and the ones who excelled in the unwanted direction.

I've literally rediscovered your channel like 10 times without realizing that it was your channel.

"Kill 500" Thanos: *Breaths heavily*

"It's evolving, just backwards"

"....it's not hard to succeed when your competition is randomly generated....." Welp, that's all the motivation I need for the year!

Keep doing it until one gains sentience.

"Look at how symmetrical this creature is!!" That has to be my favourite part of the whole video. Great job btw!

I think it's really cool that you let many different species pass on their genes, as opposed to most evolutionarily algorithms which just take the best creature and go from there

I'm just as impressed by the user interface as the simulation

I would argue that distances should be absolute, a creature that's really fast at going backwards could just be flipped around, instead of killed... I mean, your "worst" creature was actually the fastest out of them all, shame to lose such potential.

"Our 4th creature has what looks like a sail sticking up, but it's not catching any wind." ROASTED

The creature that went to the left was quite good. You should optimize for absolute distance instead.

I think this would have worked better if you flipped creatures that went backwards and used the absolute value of their distance. This would have given a bump in early stages to fast creatures that happened to be placed backwards.

Heard music. Expected somebody to vomit up some Crystal Pepsi.

This video series is honestly amazing and really informative! I think I have watched it about 10 times now haha.

This video is righteous! The science is cool, the computer science is cool, I love the graphics and the narration couldn't be better. How this only has 2.3million views is a crime! This video series deserves an award and should be shown in every science class! Well done sir!

This is an Amazing chemistry simulator! At 2:19 you've created CO2!

Surprisingly, I want to see where this goes.

This is awesome, and I can't wait to see what happens in the next parts. Thank you.

I love continually watching this series, this is about my fourth time!

A few years ago, I started an evolution simulator. I recently went back to check on it, but apparently it already emerged from the simulated primordial soup.

So then is God just some KZfaqr who is spawning humans with random traits, sorting which ones are the best, and then hitting 'kill 500'? Maybe. *Hits Blunt*

This is so awesome. This is my trance playlist. Everything is fine when I watch this!

4:27 wait a minute, that's so genius, the randomness of the selection process preserves the 'ideas' that didn't work, or at least some of their features. That means that ideas (sorry I know they are not ideas of anyone, but they are ideas in their own right) that overall may have failed, are explored to their fullest and incorporated into anything that benefits from it. Nature is the true genius, I am always humbled by the incredible results nature achieves without ever having to think, that's genius on a whole different level...

Wow, what an awsome program! Well done!!

For the people suggesting he keep or mirror the creatures moving backwards, you need to realize the movement-to-the-right is just a metaphor, the actual fitness test isn't important. He could have defined fitness as large size or largest number of nodes or heck even NOT moving, and the system would have evolved appropriate figures. Left/Right movement just represented moving away from or towards a particular 'fitness' measurement, his imaginary world defined it as moving right.

Jesus his narration is so frigging hilarious 😂 damnit i *love* this stuff! Fascinating

Finding this video when I was 11 lead to me getting into CS last year, thank you internet man!

You're doing god's work.

how do you determine the center of each organism / it's placement on the number line?

Ive played around with this a lot, it’s pretty satisfying seeing everything evolve and get faster

i was trying to remember this from my childhood and i now ive found this gem. thank you sir for the good times throughout life you have given me with this software. i was poor and didnt have much but a laptop and only free games at the time or what i could torrent lol those were the days.

I literally see Kevin mcleods royalty free muzak everywhere

This is how I was introduced to you channel

I fucking love this. I remember seeing this before but you're damn sure I'm gonna watch it again. I hope you do more of this sort of stuff. It's the future.

I am stunned, you are my hero, I LOVE it, this way simple people can also understand, THANKS DUDE. Please make it more complex,I would pay for this.

this is great

And 3 years later.... Boommm... the best game of 2018

Great electronic universe y'all have created.

This is dope! You can improve the accuracy by making the random depend on dominant and recessive traits

"This (eardrums burst) *IS A NODE* "

"LA Beast here, and this is the evolution challenge! Have a nice day!"

You sound like a bunch of my favorite KZfaqrs combined, and i like it

Dude this is so clever! Great visualization!

Thanos: the game

0:00 that holy voice of Cary is just heaven to my ears

This series is so good I'm rewatching for the 3rd time :P

Holy shit it took me 8 years to figure out you are the voice of this evaluation simulator I watched this from time to time and now only realized it was you.

found a youtube gem today

This is fantastic! Now I dare you to code a Creationism Simulator!

This proves that creative design works much better than random something or other. After designing the parts and the rules for each part you devolved it all to randomness.

Thank you for the basis for my science fair project!

Will we ever get a download link for this or a way to use this ourselves?

sometimes is feel like im very fast creature. going backwards

one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in my entire life.. absolutely amazing. explains why or how humans have 2 legs, two eyes and why a human head is so heavy and how we see in colour, why we have thumbs and so on and so on.. amazing.

I don't know why, but your voice is always so satisfying. The same with TB in BFDI!

"In January 2013" Cary said his very first words in his own channel!

I remember i was driving to camelback while watching this lol

this guy is cool he sounds chill like a teacher to young children just a soothing voice in a chill way with child like background music its perfect

This is such an incredible animation! 🤩 Would you mind if I use it with my students to teach about evolution and evolutionary algorithms?

This is a intelligently designed software

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

Best series on KZfaq

I love evolution stuff like this

"Reproduction is asexual" *Ben Shapiro wants to know your location*

The simulator doesn't work for me, it just lags and stops, then I have to exit out and re open, and start all over

The optimism in this dudes voice is insane

OMG CARY I LOVE THE BFDI SERIES OMG I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS

The slowest creature was so cool, it lept like a frog.

You're measuring displacement, rather than distance.

I watch this every Christmas Eve and I have no idea why *I get this recommended this every Christmas Eve*

I remember I watched this video on a TV a few months ago and I’m just glad I ran into this video again

4:27 perfect mirror image. "gradient"

see this make me wish for a realistic version of spore

Thanks for OpenProcessing site! That's what i need! ^^

This is amazing

has one gained sentience yet? It's been almost 3 years and 10 months.

Screw BFDIA 6 i prefer this sciency stuff ^^

Why am I watching this at 1AM? I need to sleep because I have to wake up at 5AM to go to work. Just three more episodes...

All these type creations are fascinating.

Wait, the slow creatures living and fast ones dying is mirrored.

wouldnt it have made more sense to look at the creatures covering the most DISTANCE and then inverting their build if they went left???

This just came up in my recommended so I guess I'm rewatching all 4 parts again

This is dope! Keep it up!

2015: Nope 2016: Nope 2017: Nope 2018: Nope 2019: KZfaq: oK leTs rEcomMenD tHis

Is it possible to get this simulator for yourself, because it seems fun to play around with.

"ok, it's black!" "Now it's white..." *Micheal Jackson wants to know your location*

Oh God I wasn't expecting to get a Vietnam flashback to 11th grade physics when you mentioned nodes.

Great simulation. Funny how many people in the comments don't realise that evolution can happen in any environment (including 2D CG ones where there is shark infested custard to the left), not just ones that have the same rules and requirements as planet earth.

Why don't you flip the ones that go backwards? and do an abs() distance from the beginning?

This is fascinating.

At 4:20 the left side of the screen is the right side of the screen mirrored and upside down (colors reversed). Was this intentional or "random" ?

kinda sound like honeybadger guy

Aww... I wanted to see some hot and steamy node-creature action!

this dude is our early-late childhood hero of the internet.

i tried the simulator out, and i liked it!

This is fucking awesome

4:11 Wait, clearly you should have kept 331 and just turned him around!

I have a question; Is there a way to edit the code so that I can prevent an S33 takeover (I have to run the non-"improved" version because in a step-by-step gen it freezes after completing creature #307's video, and if I skip it it freezes when it loads the creature's videos of their performance), or better, abolish S33's existence entirely? Edit: Forgot to mention, basically every time I run the simulator S33 takes over at the beginning after S45 grows with S44, S45, S56 and S57 holding on for dear life and mainly S45 and S56/S57 making a brief comeback but with S33 still existing it takes over again. That's how the simulator runs every time.

man i finally found this video again after remembering it 7 years later