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Karl Sims - Evolved Virtual Creatures, Evolution Simulation, 1994
MediaArtTube · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2014–2022).
SignalTube analysis
Among 31 other demo videos tagged Creative coding & generative art, the mean is 2.4 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 2.6 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
25% of its 8 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2022; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 4 minutes 10 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2008-12-06.
- Channel / speaker
- MediaArtTube
- Verified runtime
- 4m 10s
- YouTube upload date
- 2008-12-06
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2022
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Creative coding & generative art. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karl Sims - Evolved Virtual Creatures, Evolution Simulation, 1994Current video | 2 | 2 | 25% | — | 4m 10s | 2008-12-06 |
| elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)demo · Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras) | 7 | 10 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 3m 36s | 2011-06-26 |
| Elevated by RGBA and TBCdemo · BUTTONTANG | 7 | 7 | 58% | No recorded overlap | 3m 36s | 2009-04-12 |
| Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulationsdemo · Sebastian Lague | 6 | 5 | 100% | 1 (50%) | 17m 54s | 2021-03-25 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “It looks like you’re trying to take over the world”. Its short rationale: Example of evolutionary optimization producing creatures.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program”. Its short rationale: Classic evolving virtual creatures work, an inspiring paper.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Surprising Creativity: Anecdotes from Evolutionary Computation”. Its short rationale: Evolved creatures exploited simulation bugs.