Herding in an Artificial Life Ecosystem Evolution Simulation | Boids Algorithm Implementation

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Long in the making, it's finally here.
Today, I present the inner workings of how I added Herding in The Bibites Simulation based on the boid algorithm. The Bibites are now free to evolve complex behaviors using their dynamic and evolution-based neural networks, as well as a few new genes to control and tune that new functionality.
I now present a few interactions I observed, especially in interaction with the last features I presented in my last video.
And finally, a big announcement!
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Video about the basic simulation: • How I created an evolv...
Video about Viruses: • How I added Viruses i...
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@EdgedPixie 3 года назад

I have a suspicion that this project is gonna be super well-known in like a year.

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Thanks 😁 I sure hope so

@pvic6959 2 года назад

pshhh dont even need a year

@pollo_frito22 2 года назад

That's completely right. I had interest in this kind of proyects and I don't know how I didn't discover this awesome project before!

@angryaromatisse1801 2 года назад

This comment has aged very well :)

@mollthecoder Год назад

1 year milestone

@n8programs733 3 года назад

I was skeptical of the bibites ability to develop behaviors more complicated than simply going after food - so the advancer herd dynamics and conditional behavior in this video really shocked me! Best of luck developing this - its some of the most advanced artificial life I have seen :)

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Thanks a lot :) Yeah, I'm always impressed by what behaviors pops-up some times! Especially that kind of parenting behavior I've shown, can't wait to develop this further

@n8programs733 3 года назад

@@TheBibitesDigitalLife Yea that parenting behavior - mind blowing. Super cool to see some interaction beyond predator-prey between bibites. Best of luck developing!

@Finnie1203 3 года назад

Its weird to me. I was running a simulation on 12 times speed. After like 24 of in game time almost nothing evolved, it was still just bibites going forward randomly. how long does it take for you to have your bibites evolve?

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Depends a lot in the simulation settings you chose. Different settings will result in different adaptations. Some settings combination even make it too hard for life to develop so you're stuck with generations 0. If you just want to see a population stick you can use the "Helpful Initial Connections" setting to 2 or more, they should have an easier time sticking around

@n8programs733 3 года назад

@@Finnie1203 For me, my bibites are always competently getting food around the 50th generation.But that's just on default settings.

@TodePond 3 года назад

The herding behaviour looks amazing! So many possibilities!

@tylerroyb2585 2 года назад

Aye

@person4579 2 года назад

And its probably more advanced then most virtual creatures

@nathanwi1147 2 года назад

I'm your 69th like

@SpunkyMcGoo 3 года назад

The infection pheromone evolution was super cool!

@nicolaromano4065 3 года назад

Thats probably the most intresting life simulation project i v ever seen, gg

@martinbasille3935 3 года назад

I think it would be amazing if the pellets were also alive, as plants. They wouldn't have the ability to move, but would be able to spread seeds away. Some parameters for these plants can be an ideal tempeture for spreading (may be a way to implement biomes, with variable tempetures), spreading distance, or toxicity, which would make some species more dangerous than others. You can take the ideas that you think are good, if there are some. I think this project is incredible !

@connorhaley3190 Год назад

I think plant pellets are more similar to algae

@niklasneighbor6726 2 года назад

You should give them the ability to build dens where they store food! Would be interesting to maybe see them form colonies of multiple bibites sharing dens where they cooperate to search for food. An interesting behavior could emerge if they left a pheromone train when searching for food and following it back when they want to return home. Maybe they could leave a separate trail for others from their colony to help guide them to larger batches of food.

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 2 года назад

Good ideas all around!

@Graverman 3 года назад

can’t wait for bibites to be smarter than me, not like that’s a huge advancement but still

@user-cd4bx6uq1y 3 года назад

69 likes lol..... I liked this comment like 2 weeks ago and here we are now

@w花b 2 года назад

They can't write a comment yet so I guess you can feel superior right now

@kanapken1447 2 года назад

@@w花b 'right now'

@TheYeetedMeat 2 года назад

They’re handfed the ability to see, meanwhile you have the capability of interpreting and figure out arrangements of light without directly being told that it’s an object. You’re smarter.

@akiamini4006 2 года назад

Its impossible to see that happen on this engine and this amount of brains put into the subject .

@fiona9891 3 года назад

this is really cool and very impressive, i've been following evolution simulators on youtube for a while and this is possibly the most interesting one i've come across so far

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Thanks! Means a lot 😁 Hope it'll be enough to get you subscribed 😏

@craycrayjames 3 года назад

I am so happy to finally be able to catch a stream! I have been working on a similar project inspired by the Bibites for a long while now. You have been a big inspiration for me throughout my undergrad! :)

@hobrin4242 3 года назад

Same here. However not for a long while.

@SalreixVonOtsuu 3 года назад

i've never heard of something like this before, and the concept of behaviors you can't predict naturally occurring (IE the babies following the parents) very unique

@thoseoneguy9554 3 года назад

Suggestion: add a graph that shows the population/infected population, and how sick someone is, and/or a family tree that you can open, I think that would be super cool

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Most of those are planned at some point !

@antonstezhkin5991 3 года назад

I like that moment with bibbits rotating. Looks like a disco party!

@goatfood1504 3 года назад

This is one of the coolest projects I’ve ever seen.

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Thanks a lot 😁 I hope to make it even cooler

@connorhaley3190 Год назад

@@TheBibitesDigitalLife you sure did, and you’ll surely will.

@eleanormaraal5402 2 года назад

Honestly if you had to stop for a year I’d be happy to wait. The bibites are awesome.

@erellggbg8744 3 года назад

AHH yes, i've waited so much for this video ! I hope you know how much means to some of us :D

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Thanks a lot 😁 I put in a lot of efforts too, I hope I'll meet expectations

@imconfusednow 3 года назад

Hype hype hype

@ebrahimmomin7518 3 года назад

triple hype

@silvertheelf 3 года назад

Hype hype hype 2.0

@TheMagicalNam 3 года назад

Hype hype hype 3.0

@Kram1032 3 года назад

Evolutionary BOIDS is super interesting. I'm surprised this is the first time I see somebody attempt this. Makes a lot of sense!

@genericytprofile852 3 года назад

They're moving in herds...they do move in herds! Btw glad to see you're doing what you really enjoy in life. But don't ever feel like you can't do a part time job, or some sort of supplementary income. It'll take a while for this project to support you but that's ok. Can't wait to see what comes next!

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Thanks a lot 😁 And yeah absolutely, I'll see how it goes

@iv9753 3 года назад

This project is truly amazing.

@LuxFuxx 2 года назад

Algorithm Gods, I beseech ye! Please, bless this video! I don't know how I stumbled across this channel but I'm glad I did. A lot of this is way above my knowledge level, but you make this so easy and pleasant to follow. I like your humor and editing, it ads a lot of personality to the Bibites as a whole while they're still learning. Great job with this project, it's super interesting. I hope a lot more eyes can see this and help support you and the Bibites. Thanks for the great content.

@shatandv 3 года назад

Hey, I love what you’re doing with the life simulation! You can for sure be more confident in the project :) I’m gonna support you in this. By the way, I believe that a simple environment simulation would be a good addition earlier on. Since evolution is a process of adaptation to survive and reproduce in the environment, that seems to have a lot of potential for the complexity that will evolve. That would be very fun! As well as more realistic Take care!

@dean8100 2 года назад

This is really cool! I've always been amazed by these types of video's and you nail it, keep it up!

@zacharyip5769 2 года назад

I've been wanting to do a project like this for such a long time, but never knew how to approach it!! Seeing your progress is very impressive and inspiring! Can't wait to see more!

@cretarius729 2 года назад

I really enjoyed the "examples" segment. You should consider making a nature documentary style video where you explore the behaviour of specific species (after running the simulation for a while).

@yiannchrst 3 года назад

Cool ideas: day-night cycle, weather, temperature. Love the project, keep up with the incredible work!

@Betruet 2 года назад

I just started making a project like this and thought I was doing something special... yours is so cool hahaa I hope one day to have a complex system like yours. Thanks so much for sharing so glad youtube made your original video pop up in my feed. Great work!

@jamie7472 3 года назад

Its great to see the Bibites still evolving and I wish you and the channel the best. Looking forward to what comes next for the Bibites.

@nathanwi1147 2 года назад

How does this comment have zero likes

@connorhaley3190 Год назад

Digestion

@connorhaley3190 Год назад

@@nathanwi1147 I liked this comment just now.

@SeanCMonahan 3 года назад

This is fascinating. The diminished fitness of herding behavior in the presence of viruses is quite relevant to the real world at the moment unfortunately. Instant subscribe. I am going to watch the rest of the series!

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Thanks a lot 😁 Your words mean a lot. You'll see that my precious videos diminish in quality pretty quickly tho 😅 Hopefully I can start reaching at least the quality of this one from now on

@amplifiedroboticz2672 3 года назад

Looking forward to seeing this project evolve!

@markfriese5970 3 года назад

If one day, this is some amazing extremely complex AI system, I'd gladly pay for it on steam!

@nodrug2 2 года назад

All the best, I really like this project and I'd like to see it continue.

@luciangg1553 3 года назад

I wood like to see you adding plant evolution and digestive evolution, and stuff like that For example Plants can have different vitamins And bibits would need difrent digestive systems in order to eat them

@mozarteanchaos 3 года назад

that'd be super neat! if i may add on to it, it could be interesting if some plants could evolve to be toxic, and some bibites could then evolve to tolerate or even repurpose that toxin for their own uses

@luciangg1553 3 года назад

@@mozarteanchaosinteresting ideea, If I can add some more to it : carnivore bibits would evolve to tolerate the poison too, and if a bibit evolves to tolerate poison and use it for himself, non poisonous food will not give them alot of nutrients , since they are getting used to the poisonous food, and they will lose there poison if they won't eat poisonous food for a while

@mozarteanchaos 3 года назад

@@luciangg1553 oh, very cool ideas o: i don't have a lot to add to that one, but it's definitely neat

@kshinji 3 года назад

This is a really awesome advancement. The hard coded behavior helps see and study interesting behaviors without waiting until (and if at all) they emerge on their own as would be the case if you made inputs and outputs more fundamental. I can't support financially right now, but I hope others will because this is pretty awesome.

@kshinji 3 года назад

...do you have a black eye? :o

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

No black eyes, just very big dark circles 😅

@antonstezhkin5991 3 года назад

Yey! More bibbits!

@YellowEllo 3 года назад

Wishing you the best of luck!

@arcisle5162 2 года назад

Awesome work!

@aryaparvizi8755 2 года назад

I am so in love with your work and also so Inspiring work... it's like the thing I always wanted to develope myself. truly great job and keep it going. I hope I can support this project in the future as soon as I am able to.

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 2 года назад

Thanks a lot 🥰 I would en outage you to still give it a go and try your hand at coding an Artificial Life simulation! It's extremely fun and rewarding 😁

@TheMagicalNam 3 года назад

You must continue! Its great!

@rafikoman3245 2 года назад

Love seeing this project evolve like the bibites !

@beaub152 3 года назад

I'm so excited, this made my day

@keksmember 3 года назад

The bibites shall rise

@LeRoiPapayou 3 года назад

Nice, looking forward for the next video!

@mountvalleymusic5335 Год назад

absolutly amazing. i wanted to program something like this myself for years! ANd now it's here

@TheBibitesDigitalLife Год назад

I would encourage you to try it yourself as well 😁! It's an extremely rewarding process to bring your own lifeforms to life

@The007FossilReturns 3 года назад

Love your work man!

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Thanks 😁!

@axisodepeople1658 3 года назад

Keep up the work.

@pigizoid9924 2 года назад

i feel like the mindustry soundtrack would fit in perfectly with the bibites simulation

@davawen9938 3 года назад

Welcome back !

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Thanks a lot, it's a pleasure !

@Alex53296 3 года назад

Good luck my man

@andreybiryuchinskiy1055 3 года назад

It’s a very cool project, man 🤞

@TitanLordofPizza 3 года назад

looking great

@Somfic 2 года назад

the amount of outfit changes is amazing

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 2 года назад

Thanks a lot, I am a true artist 🦸

@alexanderplatek4496 2 года назад

I just wanted to comment to help with the algorythm and say have a good day! :D

@mateoconnelly4315 2 года назад

This channel is so cool!

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 2 года назад

Thanks!

@creepercraftytT99 8 месяцев назад

6:10 hey!, that's actually really useful!, they're saying "Hey, i'm infected, be careful" and the other ones just go away

@russianred128 3 года назад

Good luck and thank you

@fireballme1153 3 года назад

I love this!

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Thanks again for the tunes 😁❤️

@MaxPicAxe 2 года назад

I wish you the best of luck!

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 2 года назад

Thanks!

@TheBookDoctor 2 года назад

Hi. I only discovered this project a few days ago, so this comment is late, but hopefully it's helpful. I don't thin explicitly implementing herding behavior as shown here is in keeping with the philosophy of the project as a whole. If herding is a beneficial behavior, then it should arise naturally through the structure of their network. You shouldn't have to have a specific "herding" output that is connected to code. It should be sufficient only to give the bibits the sensory inputs necessary to drive the herding rules, but the rules themselves should arise naturally as the emergent behavior of the neural networks. You shouldn't need extra code for it.

@ita-or8ze 3 года назад

Let’s gooo 🍾🍾

@eggking8130 3 года назад

You might want to consider starting a Discord server as a hub

@fireballme1153 3 года назад

There is a reddit

@MudakTheMultiplier 3 года назад

He's got a discord server available to patrons as well.

@tylerroyb2585 2 года назад

Mind blowing

@moonandstars1677 2 года назад

I would like to see how these react in different environments. When I get home and have some spare time I'll look into helping support this project.

@TheVRSofa Год назад

stunning....really. i downloaded it and wow.....cant wait for more. subed and shared

@TheBibitesDigitalLife Год назад

Thanks so much ☺️ Next video is coming with the next week

@TheVRSofa Год назад

@@TheBibitesDigitalLife im gonna donate at some point when I can. This is clever stuff. Congrats!

@zacharydionne2516 2 года назад

J'adore ton projet, Bravo! Pour augmenter le gameplay, on pourrait ajouter le pouvoir de contrôler les bibites. Durant qu'on le contrôle, la bibite apprendrait de notre comportement pour évoluer son cerveau. Je ne connais pas la complexité de ce que je propose, mais ce serait cool à implenter. :-)

@joops110 3 года назад

Finally!!!

@Laezar1 2 года назад

The youngs following their parents is so cool!

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 2 года назад

Agreed 😁!

@MuffinNPC 3 года назад

- The comment for support -

@jeanneboudreau1053 3 года назад

Pure genius

@ccaranha 3 года назад

Hey, this was really cool! I'm happy to see your videos again. Are you considering going to the ALIFE conference again this year? I think people would be very excited about your idea of connecting the neuro-evolution to the herding parameters/behavior.

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Do you know if the submission process is still open? And if yes until when? I thought I would maybe skip this one and present something amazing next year 😯

@gandalfs284 3 года назад

what a cool bibite thing cool! I wish there were more bibite thing.

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

There's at least going to be more in the future than so far in the past 😁

@pureay2700 3 года назад

Love it

@legobil_ 2 года назад

Very cool ideas! It would be interesting to see some kind of queen (hard coded maybe?) to simulate hive mentality like ants or bees!

@TAP7a 2 года назад

New here - don’t know if it’s something you’ve considered already, but one of the driving forces behind evolution on earth is that between the eaten and the eater - plants evolving in responses to being eaten by animals, hosts evolving in response to their parasites, and prey evolving in response to their predators, and vice verca. I wonder if there were some behaviours or properties that plants could select for that would sythesise well with the Bibites? Maybe some plants would evolve in a manner to prioritise being eaten and spread, maybe some would prioritise never bring eaten at all. Then maybe some Bibites would specialise to pursue those more difficult ones and occupy a niche with little competition, or stick with the easy ones but actually end up adapting to best spread undigested seeds or similar. Now that’s an awful lot of complexity, but I’m sure you’d be able to distill out a couple of interesting parameters that could be played with

@crescentgemini9093 10 месяцев назад

je sais que je suis en retard pour le party, je ne fais qu'alimenter le monstre qu'est l'algorithme youtube. j'adore ton concept, continue comme ca,c'est hot en asti!

@Jkauppa 2 года назад

training gets you the set of genes that are required to survive in your conditions

@MyDude199 9 месяцев назад

Its really funny looking back and yeah, one of those weird behaviors is that natural predators are all based on herding node.

@spyral00 2 года назад

It would be nice to see them evolve in 3D and reacting to more complex environmental constraints!

@connorhaley3190 Год назад

Sounds nice, but what about the theming?

@sokagames0114 Год назад

Interesting...

@valentingigena6058 2 года назад

I left this guys over night and at generatios 900 they reached a point when everyone is producing hormones that keep everyone else far and each one is farming pellets in their own zones

@blackshard641 3 года назад

I even got the classic green color. :)

@dmarsub 2 года назад

Hope this projects stil inspires you, looking forward to the next update!

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 2 года назад

It really much does 😁 Still actively working on it!

@kammyatorkonnator4809 2 года назад

Ok so if this man is quitting his job in order to nurture this project i think we should support him.

@siavashmohammady9095 2 года назад

real genius

@lauchlanbagley1934 Год назад

Comment for the algo after the utter decimation

@biggiecheez6879 Год назад

Yeah RU-vid fucked up with this one

@David_Box 2 года назад

I suggest that instead of the viruses just simy hurting the Bibites, they should instead be able to change their neural structures, be it for better or for worse. This would actually make it more accurate to real life, as there have been many cases of animals and viruses forming simbiotic relationships. The mechanic of viruses hurting Bibites wouldn't be lost either, as changes a virus produces in an individual that are beneficial to a species may actually hurt other species. This is why viruses even injure animals irl in the first place, viruses jump species and act in ways they weren't supposed to, so changing it would also have the added benefit of making it more realistic. I see however that you already have plans laid out for the future of the project, so I understand that changing it now may be an issue.

@Iamwolf134 2 года назад

Viruses in reality, have so much more potential than people think they do. For instance, one could have most viruses be completely ineffectual for the bibites, while having a few bad ones, and a few viruses with surprisingly beneficial mutations.

@roderik1990 3 года назад

I wonder how the behaviour would change if they could distinguish between bibits while calculating the herding vectors? Like perhaps distinguishing between smaller or bigger bibits and following the biggest, or shunning the infected, or all sorts of behaviours.

@ziggyzoggin 3 года назад

5:39 when bibites are smarter than humans

@TimmacTR 2 года назад

Can this work in conjunction with a NavMesh in Unity? How would you do that? Add a vector for each of the three rules? Would that work with the Navmesh?

@aquagamez1415 3 года назад

I found this out a few months ago and it’s fantastic. Btw are there going to be predators in this? Just a question.

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

There's already predators! But it's a tricky thing to see develop. In fact that's the subject of the next video i'm working on

@Peter-vv1sb 3 года назад

I don't know if you're already doing this, but a good way to grow a channel is to put your shorts on tik tok. my friend gets the majority of his viewers from those tik tok videos, so it could help.

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

I'll do that! Thanks for the idea :)

@Peter-vv1sb 3 года назад

@@TheBibitesDigitalLife also a twitch stream for coding sessions would be nice ;)

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

I did that on my discord some times. But I figure its pretty boring 😅 Mostly me googling stuff ahahah

@opheliayoung1122 Год назад

good

@legendgames128 Год назад

3:19 "violent tendencies" Yeah I think that is an understatement here. Also, seeing the herd tear itself apart made me lose my composure.

@morgandavies2534 3 года назад

It's exciting to see Unity's DOTS migration on your roadmap. I've struggled to work in DOTS for 2D. Have you seen something that makes you think this is ready for your project?

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Not really, and their development seems kind of rocky. Among other things they say that you have to stay on 2020.3.x for the coming year if you want to use DOTS. But in the end I already started playing around with it and I figure that some parts can easily be converted to DOTS gradually. That somewhat reduces the risk. But I don't think DOTS would be at the right point now to develop a full game from scratch

@KGI704 2 года назад

I don't know if you read ideas here or not, but what if they could trophallaxis. With herding, they could actually develop multi-bibite organisms, with them even having the possibility to have each part evolve differently! This could lead to so many differences, and if they developed this behavior in scarce food worlds just a theory, a few of them might develop to have themselves more productive is trophallaxis. And in a world with many predators, they could develop a shell even! This is just an idea, but it could lead to so many cool things.

@Deathington. 3 года назад

For the algorithm

@476master 2 года назад

I use the most recent version of Ubuntu and I'm unable to run the simulation, I downloaded and extracted the files, and when I run the exe I see the unity logo but then after I just get a grey screen that I have to sudo xkill my way out of

@sophie________ 2 года назад

how do I see the genes? it just keeps saying they're hidden and I can't figure out how to view them. also the help button does nothing

@apersonthatsucksatnames1133 3 года назад

its interesting how the babies followed their parents like that. I think this is because naturally if they are on their own they are more likely to get eaten or not be able to see food as easily as a more grown bibite

@TheBibitesDigitalLife 3 года назад

Yep, agreed! That surprised me too, I found it very interesting!

@apersonthatsucksatnames1133 3 года назад

@@TheBibitesDigitalLife :)

@apersonthatsucksatnames1133 3 года назад

ive just encountered a bibite with the nodes of time alive and herding connected in a way basically saying the older it gets the less it wants to herd. very interesting