Interactive self-replicating, self-incrementing and self-decrementing loops

Authors:
André Stauffer;Moshe Sipper
Affiliations:
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Venue:
ICAL 2003 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Artificial life
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Self-replicating loops presented to date are usually worlds unto themselves, inaccessible to observer once the replication process is launched. In this paper we present a self-replicating loop which allows for user interaction. Specifically, the user can control the loop's replication as well as the size of the replica. After presenting the design of this novel loop, we delineate its physical implementation in our electronic wall for bio-inspired applications, the Bio Wall.