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DESCRIPTION
Noble Ape Simulation creates a random island environment and simulates the ape inhabitants of the island's cognitive processes. The Simulation is open source and features the Ocelot landscape rendering engine and the scripting language, ApeScript.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.690: This version features a number of ApeScript bug fixes (as ApeScript now comes standard) and a number of bug fixes associated with long-term simulation and female/male ratios through long-term simulation runs.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS 9.0 or later, CarbonLib.
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| Noble Ape Simulation User Reviews (30 posts) | Write A Review |
 | May 21 2006 |
TOMIS I find it inspiring that a complex simulation such as this is only 64k. It could easily have ended up being some slow 5MB java joke. But instead the developer went with efficient design. Kudos sir. Perhaps MacUpdate can see fit to place this program in a more appropriate category than "Games" It gives hope that there are still programmers who can write compact efficient code. Especially on MacOS X.
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 | Sep 30 2005 |
68KMLA Quite a wild simulation, the brain view is captivating.
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| Jul 10 2005 |
ANONYMOUS a file doesnt have to be huge to be complex. if you admit you know nothing about the program, why rate it?! i want to thank the developer for making this.
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| Jul 2 2005 |
MIKE SCHWARTZ The interface is certainly attractive, but I really need details on what/how these ape cognitive processes are being simulated before I will be impressed. Hard to believe such a small program is actually doing anything sophisticated. Perhaps you could some references to journal articles describing the models on which this simulator is constructed, please? Or is it top-secret?
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 | Jul 9 2005 |
TOM BARBALET Thanks for your comments. There is quite a bit of mathematical and philosophical discussion of the cognitive simulation in the original Noble Ape Manuals and Noble Ape Philosophic. Both documents are on the documentation section of the Noble Ape site. Also I wrote a margin about the cognitive simulation in my article on Noble Ape in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. Google "Barbalet Computer Graphics IEEE" for links to the article. In short, there is nothing top secret in the Noble Ape Simulation. It is all open source.
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 | Jul 10 2005 |
LORD LIGHTNING If you go to http://www.nobleape.com/sim/ it should address most of your concerns. Why not become a contributor?
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| Nov 10 2005 |
BERT FURSHNER Yeah, what he said! And also, where is the "fire" button for this game? I can't seem to kill or capture anything.
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| Jul 1 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I'm writing this review primarily to help restore the rating given to this application to a halfway decent one. I'd hoped that some people who post reviews on this site realized what kind of application they were rating, but apparently I was wrong. This isn't meant to be a terribly entertaining program, and I admit that I couldn't hold my attention for very long, but this at least needs to be appreciated for the amount of effort it must have taken to make this. This program is an impressive simulation mechanism, and it should not be reviewed by peolpe who clearly don't know what they are looking at.
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| Jul 1 2005 |
ANONYMOUS One might easily fail to appreciate NA. At the very least, though, I would expect one simply ito gnore it, rather than heap abuse on it. A simulation might seem boring to someone whose highest aspiration each morning might be to reach the next level of his favorite first-person shooter game. Sorry, just pouring my ration of gasoline on a fire that is struggling to shed light on anything whatsoever.
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| Jun 29 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This is about the oddest application I've ever seen. It reminds me of the 6800 days, when applications had long names and you still didn't know what they did... Held my attention for about 15 seconds, before I became bewildered and trashed it. Definitely a scientific app - not for laymen.
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| Apr 15 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Being that this is freeware, I have to say thanks for putting the time into it. I agree that it would not be the sort of thing that I would pay for but then again, it's free. Keep up the good work.
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| Apr 13 2004 |
PIZZA BOY Simulation of apes and their cognitive processes? Give me a effing break! This is nothing more or less than a simulation of dots moving around a brightly colored background, plus some bad fireworks! You'd have to do a lot of drugs or be 8 years old to be able to enjoy this! The one thing I can say positive about this "game" - it doesn't take long to download. Or to delete.
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| Apr 13 2004 |
LITTLEDOYOUKNOW Ignorance: the rule and not the exception. Hey Pizza Face, check out this Apple page. Noble Ape is featured prominently.
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| Jun 30 2005 |
SMARTER THAN THE AVERAGE BEAR Poor reading comprehension? Guess you didn't notice this is a scientific simulation, NOT a game. LOL.
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| Oct 29 2003 |
LANCEDALOT Concibing?
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