Alien Letter Forms
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In this paper we describe Alien Letter Forms, a software environment for letters to live in and evolve into larger texts. Alien Letter Forms builds on technical and conceptual approaches borrowed from research around artificial life systems to create a digital ecology in which text agents live, reproduce, evolve, mutate and die in response to their virtual environment. Individual letters are treated as autonomous agents, where contact between individuals produce offspring composed of new letter combinations up to and including whole words. Evolution is driven further by how well new combinations of letters fit into a set of pre-existing reference texts. The Alien Letter Forms environment is designed to produce a continuously evolving collection of letters that has local stabilities that produce readable text.
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