I remember playing around with the precursor to it, Darwin Pond, when I was 14 or so. I was a lousy genetic engineer but I loved just watching. My favourite recording was when it started out with one red, one blue and one yellow colony and over the next 1,5 hours reds and blues were slowly improving while the yellows starved and perished until they were down to 2 swimmers; then those two suddenly bred the fastest two-legged swimmer around, and in a few minutes the entire pond was yellow, entering the normal breeding/starvation cyclic relationship with the “flora”.
I remember playing around with the precursor to it, Darwin Pond, when I was 14 or so. I was a lousy genetic engineer but I loved just watching. My favourite recording was when it started out with one red, one blue and one yellow colony and over the next 1,5 hours reds and blues were slowly improving while the yellows starved and perished until they were down to 2 swimmers; then those two suddenly bred the fastest two-legged swimmer around, and in a few minutes the entire pond was yellow, entering the normal breeding/starvation cyclic relationship with the “flora”.