This page is devoted to cellular automata, genetic algorithms, and Alife. These images typically were derived from previous images [or sometimes each horizontal line is derived from the one preceding it], to every pixel of which an algorithmic set of rules was applied. They can be thought of as snapshots, part of a sequence, as opposed to the fractals of page 1, which are more like  graphs. Therefore Alife lends itself more naturally to animation than do fractals [which rely on color cycling and sometimes zooming for animation], and to fully appreciate them make sure to visit the realtime applets or better yet download some programs and make them yourself. Other cyberdelia pages at the Surrealism Test Center are:
Miscellaneous Cyberdelia
Algorithmic Music
Algorithmic Text
Some related books, video, music and software are at the Surreal World Bookstore

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 . Click the picture to visit the Artificial Painter GalleriesYou can also learn about Artificial Painter, and there is an online interactive demo and movies.

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Click the picture to go to the site of the amazing Rudy Rucker. This one's not to be missed as it's full of excellent downloadable free software, especially the wonderful Capow, and Cellab [with John Walker]. There are galleries associated with the sections for different software. Mr. Rucker is also an interesting writer.

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Scott Draves, also a very interesting programmer of fractal programs [http://draves.org/art.html], is here represented by his fine free downloadable alife program, Bomb. Click the picture to go to to his index page, from which you can download the program, view several galleries of screenshots, and access lots of info and links.

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Click the picture to go to David Griffeath's excellent site. There are many links to downloadable programs and others to view online in realtime, as well as his intersting galleries and more.

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Click the picture to visit a page with mpg's of cellular automata in action. Other connected pages have other kinds of mathematical visualizations and animations.

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Ants Screen Saver site has some interesting caps from a screensaver he wrote

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Click the picture to visit the Temple of Alife, where you can see several interesting applets actually run in realtime

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W.B. Langdon has a realtime applet up of Conway's life in Java. Another online cellular automata program is Cellsprings. And mouseDown has some shockwave alife [?] examples online.

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Dave Sag [who's also mentioned in the algorithmic music section] has a strange and interesting [but very resource-intensive on my computer] alife java applet, March of the Photobots, in which the alife seem to swarm over and decompose pictures. Click the image to go there [to activate the alife, click one of the pics at the bottom of his page].

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Avida is a freeware artificial life program downloadable from Digital Life Lab's site. 

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Here's lots of downloadable programs: Topic: areas/alife/systems/

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 Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model) has a nice realtime applet demonstrating flocking behavior, and lots of related info and links including to downloadable programs.. - -A couple more configurable online java flocking applets are the interesting Floys

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Martin Reddy's Swarm Paint is an interesting realtime applet which generates graphics through swarming behavior.

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Click here to go to a fine resource with lots of info and also downloadable programs. A more complete list of downloadable software from their old site is still up at http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/topics/cas/ca-faq/soft/soft.html

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 John Mount's [?]International Interactive Genetic Art is down as is the RndPic site. If you know where these sites have moved please email me.

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Mark Smucker's Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Page
This is a large links page mostly to info rather than graphics. It doesn't seem to have been updated since '96 and many of its links are dead but it still has stuff of interest.

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Most [and best] free algorithmic software is for pc, but here's a page with lots of Mac Alife software for download.

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Where possible each image in the galleries links to the artist's web site [which hosts the image] and within which may be found online galleries to the artist's work and if available access to purchase of original art, high quality prints, books, software, and/or information .If links to direct purchase of books by the artist are indicated on my page they are through amazon.com online. If I can't locate an appropriate official web site to link to/with, I represent the artist with a low-res  scan or image of the book cover. The image copyrights are retained by their creators and publishers and are included here in "fair use" as part of the original review pages published by the Surreal World Metagalleries.  Galleries are permanently under construction. Publishers or authors interested in having items considered for listing may send a review copy to:

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