And indeed, we find a lot of techniques that look an awful lot like something you’d expect to find in the Demoscene.
Zebra stripes aren’t directly encoded in the genome. Instead it’s more like “make stripes every 400um at X point into development, then allow them to grow with everything else”. (With X varying across species.)
(Although I am not a biochemist, so take this with a grain of salt.)
This is an awful lot like the sorts of fake-a-complex-world-by-using-an-rng-and-procedural-generation approaches often found in size-constrained demos.
And indeed, we find a lot of techniques that look an awful lot like something you’d expect to find in the Demoscene.
Zebra stripes aren’t directly encoded in the genome. Instead it’s more like “make stripes every 400um at X point into development, then allow them to grow with everything else”. (With X varying across species.)
(Although I am not a biochemist, so take this with a grain of salt.)
This is an awful lot like the sorts of fake-a-complex-world-by-using-an-rng-and-procedural-generation approaches often found in size-constrained demos.