As you can see, this site is still under construction. One of my goal of this site is that you will be able to “breed” Asias in your own Asiarium, which you put in your favorite Asias.
Those Asias in your Asiarium will be evolving as well as they used to be in TheNature, and you can try breed improvement or breeding mutants.
Asiarium will be released in the near future. Look forward to it. That must be very fun!
And it’s free both to have an Asiarium and Asias in it.

PublicFarm Is Where You Take Your Asias

Where are you taking those “favorite” Asias from? TheNature? No. If everyone is possible to do hunting in TheNature, it might happen that the environment will be unbalanced because of overhunting.
Today, PublicFarm has been released. They are literally places to farm some kind of species taken in TheNature. They are kept away from TheNature, in other words, once an Asia is harvested from TheNature, the Asia and its offspring will never release back into TheNature. This is to avoid gene pollution and to keep ecological balance in TheNature.
Since very few Asias were harvested in TheNature and they will be multiplied in PublicFarms, effect to the balance of TheNature is quite few.

Request For New Farms

Before Asiarium will be released, I will do breed improvement for some beautiful species of Asia in PublicFarms so that you can choose your favorite Asias from them.
Come and see their growth process and feel free to request for new farms with your favorite species. You can browse at FieldGuide.

I imagined what a meateater do if there are no eat — I thought it might eat plants. Vice versa, a vegetarian might eat meat if it starves. So I programmed to consider starvation when an Asia eat Subs/other Asias so that meateaters eat Subs and vegetarian eat other Asias in the case they are starving.

And I found this has been disarranging the balance of meateaters-vegetarians population. Meateaters can eat other Asias and Subs while vegetarians cannot eat other Asias even they are starving because when an Asia try to eat others, predator and prey will be casted comparing their carnivorous degree. So vegetarians will be prey in many case. Thus, vegetarians die down.

I will remove the algorithm to allow exception. And re-start TheNature from the beginning.

Watching movement of contemporary art, especially of Japan like Takashi Murakami, Makoto Aida or Akira Yamaguchi, I always have a feeling like what I used to feel when I listened Yellow Magic Orchestra at the first time, 30 years ago.
I’m so happy that these artists from Japan are welcomed in the world not because of exoticism. Their works are appreciated on their conceptual level not just on their artfulness.
On the other hand, I have heard that an old man watching Makoto Aida’s work in a museum and said “This is not art!”.
(I have another experience to to hear an old man’s saying “This is not art!” in front of the famous lavatory basin by Marcel Duchamp.)
Yes, Makoto Aida is Duchamp!
A feminist group boycotted his recent exhibition at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. They advocated that some works exhibited in the exhibition are child porn not art. No, no, no…. They don’t understand the essence of those works at all.
Although I’d decline to comment on the explication of those works here, the feminist group at least don’t see those works and never try to read its concept deeply.
Another museum in Tokyo, there were some exhibitions of impressionist art, renaissance or some very fine art. Yes, they are all very fine, I don’t insult those fine art, I never go to those exhibitions though. Local news told that those museums were very busy with seethed mass every day. impressionist art is very popular here in Japan.
I think it’s meaningful enough to watch those fine art to trace back history. However, the background of those art works are quite different from context of contemporary art. In addition, we Japanese don’t share the cultural background with those works and most of those seethed mass may not understand that well. In other words, what those works tried to draw have no ties to what we are facing today. To the audience, i.e. seethed mass, they are fine. OK, they are all very fine. All they were able to do was just appreciate their artfulness, not concept. OK, they are all very fine.

Worships to artfulness is not just about historical art

Even in art scene today, some artists are seeking artfulness. Most of computer graphics artists are trying to create some ‘awesome’ works that make audience say “Wow!”.
But so what?
Has realistic 3D CG given us anything that we were inspired expect its artfulness? Has any oil painting artist that has very fine painting skill given any new concept to contemporary art schene? Has any 3D movie given us a new concept to us expecting “wow!” on its technology? Nope, they are just good craftsmen or just ostentations of technology.
All artists working in our age should be conceptual. Further more, those concept should be quite new that we’ve never seen before. Artfulness itself has no relation to art.
The works of the artists as I mentioned in the opening sentence are not only artfulness enough, but they are also conceptual. Some works are poor on their artfulness though. But of course those poor on artfulness works are poor on purpose. And they are still conceptual. As for the works of Marcel Duchamp, who may be original of conceptual art, they are extremely done away with artfulness, especially ready-made art works.

2B2D

Getting back to Minnerasia. It was not so difficult for me to design Asias as 3D, but I have chosen 2D because I thought the point was not at artfulness but concept. With awesome graphic, the concept might blur and that was not what I intended. If Minnerasia were art, it must be conceptual art. And I don’t apply the word “Art” to something not conceptual.

1. Asias in TheNature never did conspecific reproduce.
2. Asias in TheNature egest even in the case they are starving.

Because of these bugs, population of Asia didn’t increase.

Asias never did conspecific reproduce

There were logical bug in my code that chooses spouse for conspecific reproduce. With the bug code, every time spouse has never been found, so the conspecific cross wasn’t realized.

Asias egest even in the case they are starving

When I noticed that I had to employ the concept of appetite for the decision whether an Asia eat Subs or other Asia, I should have considered of egestion as well. Since I employed the concept of appetite on eating decision, Asias have stopped eating too much.  However, they seem to keep egesting even when they are starving, and die.

I have debugged these bugs. TheNature need to re-start from the beginning again. This time, I kept the backup of protobionts, so I roll back it.

In order to make it increase up to 100,000, I could adjust amount of Subs throughout the process, but this time, I decided to leave it natural. Or if I adjust now, the evolution might turn into not natural, i.e. the evolution may differ between up here and from here. That cannot be said “TheNature”.

So let’s not stick to population of 100,000 this time.

This restarted The Origin includes following improvements;

• Debugged Asias‘ eating decision algorithms.
• Initial Subs number has been tuned to keep population around 100,000.

Protobiotic Soup

Now TheNature is filled with protobiotics, which were generated with random parameters in their DNA. Although they can be grouped some species referring to their DNA structure, each individuals doesn’t have any blood relationship. So all individual Asias have very unique looks.

An Asia named Miro was starving. He was a typical meateater with 0.9 of carnivorous degree. He found another Asia named Kandinsky that has enough Subs 1 and 3, which Miro loves very much. So Miro decided to eat Kandinsky.
Since Kandinsky’s carnivorous degree was 0.2 and his vitality was quite low, Miro could eat Kandinsky and get all Subs that Kandinsky had.

Just run! Baby

An Asia named Miro was starving. He was a typical meateater with 0.9 of carnivorous degree. He found another Asia named BenJonSon that has enough Subs 1 and 3, which Miro loves very much. So Miro decided to eat BenJonSon.
Since BenJonSon’s carnivorous degree was 0.2, Miro tried to eat BenJonSon. But BenJonSon’s vitality was much higher than Miro, and he could outrun Miro. Miro lost BenJonSon.

Kaeriuchi (Being killed by the intended victim)

An Asia named Miro was starving. He was a typical meateater with 0.9 of carnivorous degree. He found another Asia named Samurai that has enough Subs 1 and 3, which Miro loves very much. So Miro decided to eat Samurai.
Since Samurai’s carnivorous degree was 0.95 and his vitality was high enough, Miro was eaten by Samurai and was took all Subs that Miro had.

Venom Prey

An Asia named Miro was starving. He was a typical meateater with 0.9 of carnivorous degree. He found another Asia named Dali that has enough Subs 1 and 3, which Miro loves very much. So Miro decided to eat Dali.
Since Dali’s carnivorous degree was 0.2 and his vitality was quite low, Miro could eat Dali and get all Subs that Dali had.
However, Dali had may Subs 2 that is very harmful for Miro, so soon after Miro ate Dali, Miro died.

Each Asia has differing degree of carnivorous depending on this value defined in its DNA. The higher value an Asia has this value, the higher possibility it try to eat others. On the contrary, The lower an Asia has this value, the higher possibility it try to Subs floating in the environment. That is, Asias that have high carnivorous degree can be called “meateaters” while that have low degree can be “vegetarians”.

When an Asia decides whether to eat others, the status of its appetite is referred at first. And then the carnivorous degree is referred. Asias that has low carnivorous degree seldom decide to eat others, still cannot say that they never eat others though.
In the case the Asia decide to eat others, it chooses the prey candidate at random in the environment. And then both the predator’s and prey candidate’s carnivorous degree is compared. If the prey candidate’s carnivorous is higher, those position turn back, i.e. predator turns into prey candidate and the prey candidate turns into predator.
After casting the predator and prey candidate, those vitality will be compared and in the case the predator’s vitality is higher, it eats, otherwise nothing happens.

When an Asia decides whether to eat Subs, its carnivorous degree is referred. The lower the carnivorous degree is, the more chance to eat Subs.

Asia‘s species is defined by its DNA structure consisting of branches, nodes and leaves. In the case that an Asia’s DNA structure differs from other one, those two Asias belong to different species, i.e. xenogeneic.

Xenogeneic Cross

When two individuals belonging to the different species create offspring, the crossing will be xenogeneic cross that is calculated by GP(Genetic Programming).
By xenogeneic cross, a part or whole of the tree structure of a parent will connected to node of the other one, and a new tree structure will be created. So the child’s DNA structure will differ from both parents. In xenogeneic cross even between the same species may create another new type of structure.

Asia‘s species is defined by its DNA structure consisting of branches, nodes and leaves. Some species have complex structures while others have simple ones.
In the case that two Asias’ DNA structure are quite the same, those Asias belong to the same species, i.e. conspecific.
Although DNA structure defines individual’s shape and colors, there still might be the case that two similar looking individuals belong to different species. This may be happen that the difference of those two DNA structure doesn’t affect its shape and/or color. In other words, looking similar doesn’t always tell they are the same species.
On the other hand, there may be some cases that two individuals that couldn’t be more different belong to the same species. This may happen easily because parameters in the DNAs differ even if they have the same structure.

Conspecific Cross
When two individuals belonging to the same species create offspring, the crossing will be conspecific cross that is calculated by GA(Genetic Algorithm).
The child created by conspecific cross will always be the same species even if mutation occurs because mutation in GA doesn’t change those structures. However, since parameters in the parents’ DNA will be crossed, the creatrue will take new character, shape and colors that look blended of its parents’. The child might look as if it’s a new species although it still belongs to the species that its parents do.