TECHNOSPHERE

The artists' description:

"TechnoSphere is a 3D virtual world that is accessed via the Internet.
It has a World Wide Web interface that allows people to construct
artificial life-forms from component descriptions and place them in
the world. The life-forms grow and evolve over time and regularly
send messages, images and animations back to their creator by email.

TechnoSphere is an arena in which digital creatures seek a future.
Artificial life-forms compete for resources and develop their genetic
potential for life. TechnoSphere is a world created by fractal
geometry, inhabited by creatures grown from genetic algorithms and
experienced by real people. The evolutionary development of the
three-dimensional world will depend on the participation of an
on-line public."

Technosphere is currently being overhauled to give a more graphical interface,
but the beasties are roaming across the plains and send postcards to tell you
how they are getting on. Soon, the plan was when I last heard, you will be able
to survey the digital savannah where, among many others, valdemar the herbivore,
my own creation, frolics among his playmates.

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