Computationally Recreating the Cambrian Explosion of Vision
Starting with a single light-detecting cell, our digital creatures face challenges that shaped real eyes over millions of years: navigating the world, discerning food from poison, and evading predators.
Food & Poison Discrimination
Emergence of eyes from single light-sensitive photoreceptors
Our digital creatures evolve different eyes based on survival needs – compound-like eyes for navigation, camera-like eyes for food and poison discrimination.
Why do eyes have lenses?
Our creatures independently discover solutions that nature found – like lenses that focus light – emerging naturally to balance survival pressures and physical constraints of their environment.
Random Mutations to Creature’s Optical Gene
