MLA Survival of the Florid A natural simulating adaptation environment.
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MLA Survival of the Florid Description

Survival of the Florid is a very simple artificial life programme that simulates natural selection. It There are just two species - flowers and butterflies. Each species comes in three colours. Each butterfly has larvae that do best when they eat flowers of it own colour. If flowers of one colour predominate (say red), butterflies of that colour will come to predominate too - for a while. The heavy predation will reduce the size of the red flower population.The red butterfly population will also fall as their host plants start to disappear. The butterfly population has to adapt or go extinct. A mutant butterflies of a different colour will now have an advantage and should start spreading. The populations of butterflies and flowers cycle through the colours as they try to keep up with each other. To keep things simple I have made both butterflies and flowers asexual. The brightness of their colour indicates how much energy they have stored. As in nature, extinction can occur. When this happens environment is reseeded with flowers and butterflies.

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