jupyterjones/biomorphjs

A JavaScript implementation of Richard Dawkin's Biomorph, a simulation that demonstrates the power of natural selection.

BiomorphJS: Natural Selection in JavaScript

For his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins developed a program that created “biomorphs”: virtual creatures created by a computer simulation. The simulation, called Biomorph, was developed in order to demonstrate the power of natural selection.

Recently, in an effort to better understand how the Biomorph program worked, I decided to implement it myself in JavaScript using the HTML5 canvas element. The result of this endeavour can be found here. Read more to learn how to use the Biomorph program.

To learn more about how the program works, please see this blog post.