The evolution of digital trees. Artificial life. Part 5. Day and Night

Evolution simulation in a fictional world.
Just for fun.
The video describes how the digital organisms in the simulation have adapted to the change of day and night.
I show fragments of the simulation, providing my comments and genome analysis.
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[@Block_Of_Lapis]

Feel more like a winter than a night

[@StefanReich]

Yeah, a tree takes less than 1 day to grow fully in this simulation

[@sammysammyson]

I was thinking the same.

[@tamarpeer261]

I agree but that is not realistic either

[@10EightyPlays]

Red Winter is coming!

[@YaboiiLando]

The Long Night. 👀

[@kadenspencer-smurthwaite9006]

I think next you should implement a system for dead cells. Most trees irl don't fall immediately when they die, and even when they do fall, they stick around awhile.

[@NJP-Supremacist]

Dead cells, and distinct "fungus" cells that can only feed on dead cells would be a nice addition to this

[@kadenspencer-smurthwaite9006]

@@NJP-Supremacist I don't think fungus should be it's own cell. I would rather dead cells slowly turn into rot/fungus, and then disappear

[@TheYeetedMeat]

This is a translation of a Russian channel called Foo52ru from what I can tell. The 6th episode of the tree simulation is already out there.

[@NoNameAtAll2]

maybe allow falling seeds to fall through branches of other plants?

[@tombertube7565]

I wish for this since I saw the first vid

[@flingyourself]

I absolutely adore this series. It has inspired me to do some evolution simulations of my own. Please continue doing this, I love how you keep adding more and more features to try to make it more realistic. 😁Also, I'd be overjoyed if you eventually gave us the code to try it ourselves. Have an amazing day!!!

[@brianmiller4614]

This simulation can never be realistic because it is an evolution simulation. Evolution simulations are fun but unrealistic.

[@spanditime4170]

Actually this content is completelly stolen, original series can be found on foo52rus on KZbin, tho its on Russian, I would understand if the content Washington translation, but this is complete ripoff

[@NotToast859]

@@spanditime4170 Look in the comments in the "About the channel" video, apparently they have foo52rus's consent

[@macrocosm4442]

Indeed❤

[@Fanny-Fanny]

My day is always instantly improved when I see a post of a new video from you! Better than that, the rest of my life is improved by the knowledge in it. Thanks!

[@brianmiller4614]

What knowledge?

[@Fanny-Fanny]

@@brianmiller4614 um, the knowledge of how his artificial trees work and behave... duh.

[@MichaelMSHuber]

Think about putting a "ground" layer that has no solar energy, but the plants need to spread "roots" there to be able to utilize more energy from the "leaves"

[@and_the_first_last]

That's a really good idea. As it is, the simulation is ignoring half of what makes a plant

[@tamarpeer261]

@@and_the_first_last I don't think it's ignoring...

[@and_the_first_last]

@@tamarpeer261 Most trees have root systems comparable in size to their visible portion, though

[@EurostaSolidaginis]

Interesting that the organism described around minute 7 has adopted a lifecycle similar to ferns, with spore, sporophyte and gametophyte corresponding to the 1 cell, 4 cell, and multicellular forms.

[@kadenspencer-smurthwaite9006]

Whatever happened to the system a few videos back in which the seeds don't disappear when they land on another plant?

[@kirtil5177]

seems to be removed. i imagine its a big source of lag and slows down the overall simulations

[@b10ckh0usesurv10rs]

create a nitrogen cycle type thing where when a tree dies, the ground around it is better for growth and that if a seed falls in good soil it will gain a starting energy boost. Bad soil will reduce starting energy

[@tamarpeer261]

Idea: add ground and a root system. Trees will require energy from the sun, but also water and nutrients. Dead trees decompose into the ground and add back nutrients.

[@racsofischer7601]

I feel like your "day/night" cycle is more analogous to seasons. day and nights are very short compared to plants night cycles, whereas seasons are more closely related to their growth cycles.

[@melasintesi2126]

I don’t tend to comment much, but I have too, as your channel has quickly become my favorite, I’ve always been fascinated with genetics and evolution, and am glad I’ve finally found a channel that also does. Keep up the great work!

[@nicholasflavin2961]

These videos are amazing and inspired me to try and create similar sims on my own. It would be really interesting to see a video on how you create these sims.

[@antonmyhreutzen1928]

Nice another vid keep up the good work

[@darius_defiant]

You have been very inspirational to me, but I'm just a beginner coder. Is it possible for me to make something like this in just Python? I'm struggling with knowing how to properly visualize the simulations I want to run. They are very (visually) - something like a grid 100x100 to start, with tiles that change colours based on which agent 'owns' them, if any, and updates in real time as their control spreads. As well as just some simple buttons and data display. I've tried looking up things by myself but I get so many different answers ranging from built-in Python libraries to PyGame, to needing to use another language/engine for the GUI, etc. I'd really appreciate getting pointed to a good place to start! I want to try to make my own things like this.

[@EurostaSolidaginis]

A great place to start would be with recreating the "Game of Life" simulation. I've done similar work to that. For visualizations I've used ascii, pygame, and some heatmap visualizers. I don't think the interface matters all that much. Just run with whatever you're comfortable with.

[@darius_defiant]

​@@EurostaSolidaginis As much as I've seen things on the Game of Life, I haven't really considered making my own for some reason as practice, which feels a little silly of me in hindsight heh. I'll give it shot, since the foundations are fairly similar to what I'm thinking of for a starting project. Though, one of my concerns and why I'm curious to learn what types of languages and interfaces other people us has to do with limitations in rendering power/efficiency, because I would like to scale up to some bigger projects. I'll just keep it small for now until I get more comfortable :) I tend to think ahead too much and end up not actually -doing- enough. Thanks for the response!

[@KaneNomos]

Thanks a lot, love to see your videos every couple of days.

[@147CT]

The bands of energy in the episode preview strongly resemble the "root simulation" people keep asking for. The plants are seeking out the areas of high energy, which they grow to occupy as fully as possible. I'd be interested to see vertical bands to see what types of competition emerge. I'd also be interested to see a simulation where energy is removed and redistributed as part of the life cycle. Excited for more!

[@matthewe3813]

One thing that I think needs to be mentioned is real trees live on the scale of years to decades, so a single night isnt going to do much to it as it experiences 1000s of individual day night cycles throuout its life, I think a better thing to implement to make it more realistic would be seasons like summer and winter.

[@CarelessForce]

It was explained in an earlier video the point of this series isn't to replicate nature but to simulate evolution, it's also explained these are named tress because they happen to look similar, not because this is supposed to be a tree a sim. Agree that summer and winter seem like more appropriate terms here though

[@TheYeetedMeat]

This is a translation of a Russian channel called Foo52ru from what I can tell. The 6th episode of the tree simulation is already out there.

[@CarelessForce]

@@TheYeetedMeat Now that you mention it, the channel description does say "foo52ru in English". I'm glad they're bringing the content to an English audience, but I wonder if they have permission

[@Brazil-loves-you]

Keep going! We're here accompanying your project and we like your videos

[@tar0nja]

Still loving it

[@ravelsouzax1584]

Nice work

[@hacksolo857]

This guy needs more subs love your channel

[@kirakirsch8991]

keep up the great work

[@waddupbro]

Sorry, but I have to ask. Do you use a machine generated voice or your own voice? Because it feels oddly robotic, and yet natural as well. Kinda like your artificial life.

[@gadkinson]

This channel was originally in Russian, but a fan decided to translate these videos and publish them. I think he is paying for a voice actor, so any grammar issues in the script he gives probably are what causes that affect

[@e-genes2727]

Very neat project. You should also add seasons. I made a simulation but i added the neural networks to the creatures, the plants only have physical genes.

[@0hate9]

isn't it weird to do a day-night cycle that lasts *longer* than it takes a tree to grow?

[@tombertube7565]

Yeah, also, the growth is faster than the falling

[@NJP-Supremacist]

Dead cells, and distinct "fungus" cells that can only feed on dead cells would be a nice addition to this

[@person4579]

Cool

[@erikragrin3336]

I would really love to see the music at the start of the video posted separately so I could listen to it

[@Minty1337]

please release code or an exe, i'd love to run it myself

[@intergraphenic]

same

[@RafaelSCalsaverini]

Would love to have access to the simulation to play with. Maybe after you finish your research?

[@Thrillbo341]

Could you simulate Summer and winter year cycles? Shorter days longer nights and a high cost to grow in winter with the opposite in the summer? I'm trying to think of a way to represent the temperature other than growth cost maybe a water fuel resource that drives growth, simulate water availability / scarcity for hot dry conditions at peak summer, and water as its locked up as ice in winter would allow for more realist spring growth rates.

[@bensonfamily6302]

Ah yeah another one!

[@somnvm37]

omg amazing video, every part of the series is very interesting oh btw, 09:38 why are there some moments in russian?

[@moofin4170]

These are amazing. How do you make them?

[@dimitri0404]

Can you make a video on how you designed the genome

[@dimitri0404]

Oh, nervermind, I found a video where you explained it

[@shubshub11]

Do you have a twitter? Id be interested in following you on other platforms as well Recently started working on my own Life Sim based on your videos

[@emilianozamora399]

You should have different parts of the world having different height so plants have different species at each height

[@grynte1]

What if you scrap the age thing, and make them drop seeds when they die? also i think it would be amazing if you made a playlist with all your "digital trees" videos!

[@hinti24]

Is there a chance you will publish a coding guide for a simple version of this?

[@toastured]

can you make the simulation download able

[@thebeckett2814]

hey could i have the source code for this thx

[@cmilkau]

Does the genome allow single cell suicide? That's a very powerful mechanism in nature

[@brennanfehr7227]

link?

[@Miro080808]

Maybe add some GMO trees?

[@cmilkau]

How do you know whatever it's day or night?

[@rubenscavalcanti8886]

Watch the video

[@madcio]

Methinks you need to optimize your simulation. Every tick takes visibly too much time now.

[@Martin211276]

monkeh

[@coreblaster6809]

I don't think the day night thing leads to anything interesting, especially since a tree grows and dies entirely within one day without it ever being night for it.

[@TaylorfromPapaLouie]

i dont know why but your voice sounds *SO* much like an ai

[@lourdthebluefoxie]

yt