Evolution of the lego bridge

From a single brick to the other side of the cliff

Our algorithm obtained a solution for the problem of constructing a 'Bridge' structure fixed to one of the tables in our lab that will span the distance of 1.5m that separates it from a neighboring table.

The animation in this page follows the lineage of an individual from its humble beginnings (a single brick) all the way through the final solution. Both mutations, changes affecting only one brick, and crossovers, addition or removal of part of the structure of another individual, can be observed.

NOTE: If your browser does not support animated gif images, you will not be able to see this animation. But you can still see the evolution of the lego bridge, frame-by-frame.

See the Lego Bridge Image Gallery

More information about Computer Evolution of Buildable Objects

• In the News Read what the press has said about this project!

• Examples of Evolved Structures
  2D
  • Lego Bridge
  • Long Bridge
  • Lego Crane
  • Lego Tree

    3D

  • Lego Table

• EvoCAD An intelligent CAD System

• NEW Source Code now available.

• NEW Read our article in the Autumn 07 issue of SIGEVOlution.

• The book
• The book Evolutionary Design by Computers features a chapter about this project.

• Future work

• Publications

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