Blind Watchmaker Applet

Below are some of the Biomorphs that students made in class today (unfortunately C block is not represented here, because I couldn't figure out how to make a screen shot in the computers in 212). Click on any picture to make it larger. All of these images started with the same basic population (figure 1 below) and the same genes:

• genes 1-8 control the overall shape of the biomorph,
• gene 9 the depth of recursion,
• genes 10-12 the colour of the biomorph,
• gene 13 the number of segmentations,
• gene 14 the size of the separation of the segments,
• gene 15 the shape used to draw the biomorph (line, oval, rectangle, etc).

Figure 1 (above)