*Current affiliation: Tecmo Koei
RomperSand is a novel artificial-life-oriented interactive art. You can play 3D-GoL (Conway's Game of Life) in a virtual sandbox. In RomperSand, two distinct sets of state-transition rules are combined together: one for simulating physically plausible motion of virtual sand particles and the other for realizing the GoL-like dynamic behavior of living structures. Players can operate several virtual tools to create, destroy, and interact with these structures.
Download RomperSand (version 1.2.2, for Windows only; 24.9MB)
Read our paper (PDF)
Daisuke Ogihara and Hiroki Sayama, Playing a 3D Game of Life in an interactive virtual sandbox, Advances in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2005), M. S. Capcarrere, A. A. Freitas, P. J. Bentley, C. G. Johnson, and J. Timmis, eds., pp.481-490, Canterbury, UK, 2005, Springer-Verlag.
(This page is a temporary site to host the binary file of RomperSand. The original website was http://oz.hc.uec.ac.jp/ogihara/rompersand/, which is no longer alive. For questions/comments, email to sayama@binghamton.edu)