Tag: genetics
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Viruscraft: building a ‘reasonably accurate’ genetic game world simulation
The concept for the viruscraft game is to have a realtime genetic model or simulation of the host evolution which is adapting to the properties of a virus you are building (either on screen or via a tangible interface as part of an exhibit). This model needs to be realistic, but only up to a…
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Butterfly game at Royal Society Summer exhibition
Some hungry butterfly hunters making evolution happen at the Summer Science exhibition last week. Thank goodness for multitouch!
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Evolving butterflies game released!
The Heliconius Butterfly Wing Pattern Evolver game is finished and ready for it’s debut as part of the Butterfly Evolution Exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2014. Read more about the scientific context on the researcher’s website, and click the image above to play the game. The source code is here, it’s the first…
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Butterfly wing pattern evolution
I’ve been working lately with the Heliconius research group at the University of Cambridge on a game to explain the evolution of mimicry in butterfly wing patterns. It’s for use at the Summer Science Exhibition at the Royal Society in London, where it’ll be run on a large touch screen for school children and visiting…
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Making a butterfly shader
From sketches to fragment shader tests (unfinished) – see it running in webgl with the source code here. This is for a genetics and mimicry game, more on this project soon…
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DORIS on the high seas
Yesterday was the first test of the full DORIS marine mapping system I’m developing with Amber Teacher and David Hodgson at Exeter University. We went out on a fishing boat from Mylor harbour for a 5 hour trip along the Cornish coast. It’s a quiet season for lobsters at the moment, so this was an…
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Hapstar graphs in the wild
Some examples of graphs that scientists have created and published using Hapstar, all these images were taken from the papers that cite the hapstar publication, with links to them below. I think the range of representations of this genetic information indicate some exciting new directions we can take the software in. There are also some…