Workshop

Everything built along the way that is not one of the four experiences on the front page. Some of these are finished and simply narrow; others are half-built and left where they stopped. They are all live, and none of them is maintained.

Side experiences

Larger builds that once sat on the front page.

• BloomThe same nine genes developed by a trigonometric field rule instead of branching. Includes the shareable zoo and aquarium.
• Biomorph Farm2D game: farm biomorphs, trade with NPCs, walk the botanical gardens.
• 3D GalleryFirst-person walk through biomorphs as branching trees. Five zones, day/night cycle.

Experiments

Working tools and simulations, each answering one question.

• GenomeInspect and edit every gene with a live preview of the creature it makes.
• Gene SearchUpload a target shape; a genetic algorithm evolves a genotype toward it.
• ColonyA population evolving with no one selecting. Clusters form and lineages drift.
• PlanetFive biomes with five selection pressures, driving the same starting population apart.
• LocomotionA physics arena where a creature's shape decides whether it walks, crawls or slithers.
• ExpeditionCollecting and trading rare biomorphs against AI collectors.

Prototypes

Attempts at embryologies beyond the five in the paper. Most of what worked here was folded back into the mode tabs in Select.

• BudsFirst try at growth points that can sprout new structure.
• Buds v2Segmented body plans.
• Buds v3Full body plans, the version that became a mode tab.
• Exploratory GrowthStructure that grows toward something rather than following a fixed rule.
• Mustard Plant PrincipleOne gene switching a whole developmental program on or off.
• Homologous BonesThe same underlying skeleton showing through creatures that look unrelated.
• Zoom StoryboardSketch of one continuous zoom from genome to organism to colony to planet.
• Specimen LibraryContact sheet of the saved specimen set.

Writing

• Behind the BuildDev logs and writeups: how the tools were built, what the experiments showed, which puzzles took longest.
• Reverse-Engineering DawkinsWorking out the 1988 program's actual rules from the paper and its binary save files.

Elsewhere in this repo

Built here, unrelated to biomorphs.

• On Computable NumbersTuring's 1936 paper as an interactive edition, with a machine you can run.
• Interactive PapersThe shared reading surface those editions are built on.
• Project DashboardBuild status across the whole repo.