visual-selection 0.2.0

A simple illustration of mutation aiding evolution

Visual Selection

Introduction

Many moons ago, back in 2008, while in a debate on an atheist-oriented phpBB site (as was the fashion back then), I ended up writing a couple of scripts, in ruby, to illustrate a point about how mutation and selection can, given enough time, result in something with the appearance of design.

The code was far from a mic-drop body of evidence (it wasn't meant to be), I think it did an okay job of showing how nothing more than just mutating something and selecting for the "fitter" options can get you somewhere meaningful given enough time.

No matter, either you get the illustration or you don't. That's not important.

Fast forward 15 years and I was thinking that a Textual version of the code might be fun.

Turns out it is fun!

Installation

If you want to play with this, the best method is going to be to install with pipx:

$ pipx install visual-selection

then simply run visual-selection.