biomorph
biomorph
1. In 1985, Dawkins invented a universe he called "Biomorph Land.
1985年，道金斯发明了一个他称之为“生物形态王国”的宇宙。
2. In 1986, after encountering the newly published Biomorph program, Latham merged the heart of Dawkins's evolutionary engine with the sophisticated skin of his three-dimensional forms.
1986年，拉萨姆偶识新问世的“生物形态”程序，他将道金斯进化模型的引擎核心与他的三维形态的精细贴面融合到一起。
3. Biomorph is a fairly sophisticated computer program.
“生物形态”就是个相当成熟复杂的计算机程序。
4. A form was born in Biomorph Land as a line so short it was a dot.
“生物形态王国”中诞生的线条形态起初很短，只是一个点。
5. Biomorph Land -- huge as it was -- was only a subset of Latham's space.
“生物形态王国”尽管如此巨大，也只不过是拉萨姆空间的一个子集而已。
6. " Biomorph Land is the space of possible biological shapes constructed with short straight lines and branches.
“生物形态王国”是一个具有可能生物形态的空间，这些生物形态由短直线和分叉线构成。
7. The earliest versions of Biomorph Land did not have a function for saving the coordinates of every biomorph.
“生物形态王国”最早的版本没有保存每个生物形态座标索引的功能。
8. Perhaps because of the visual nature of Biomorph Land, the first people to incorporate Dawkins's idea of computational breeding were artists.
也许是由于生物形态王国形象化的本性，最先吸取道金斯计算机繁育设想的人是艺术家们。
9. In this way he could steer to various biomorph forms by twiddling the gene dial.
以这种方法他可以通过摆弄基因刻度盘引导出各种生物形态。
10. But Biomorph Land supplies assistance.
但是“生物形态王国”也助了一臂之力。
11. But what you are really doing is finding the creature, for it is, in a mathematical sense, already sitting in its own place in the genetic space of Biomorph Land.
但是你实际上是在发现生物，因为从数学的角度来看，它早已存在于‘生物形态王国’的基因空间[5]里属于它的位置上了。”
12. Over the following months, Dawkins tramped the backwaters of Biomorph Land hunting for nonplant and abstract shapes.
接下来的几个月，道金斯在“生物形态王国”这个世外桃源流连忘返，寻找非植物的和抽象的形状。
13. All variation in Biomorph Land occurred by asexual mutations from a single parent.
生物形态世界的一切变化都通过来自单系祖先的无性变异来完成。
14. Any subtle shift made in the biomorph gene space would amplify into a noticeable and dependable shift in graphic image.
生物形态基因空间的任何微妙变化都将放大成图形图像的显著可靠的变化。
15. Instead, genes control growing rules -- embryological developmental processes -- or in Biomorph Land, drawing algorithms.
相反，基因控制的是发展规则--胚胎发育过程--或者在‘生物形态王国’里，就是绘图算法规则。”
16. ) an image of a chalice that Dawkins had come upon by chance on one of his rambles in Biomorph Land.
自己在生命形态王国的一次漫游时偶遇的一幅高脚杯图像。
17. by instituting left-right symmetry as a fundamental element of every biomorph, Dawkins could reduce the overall size of the Library, thus making it easier to find a biomorph.
通过把左右对称设定为每一个生物形态的基本要素，道金斯就能够缩小库的整个规模，结果让发现生物形态更加容易。
18. Dawkins's thinking was inspired by his attempts to create an artificial evolution in Biomorph Land.
道金斯打算在生物形态领域创造人为进化的企图激发了他思考的灵感。
19. Dawkins wrote Biomorph Land as an educational program to illustrate how designed things could be created without a designer.
道金斯的“生物形态王国”是作为教育程序而编写的，目的是阐明设计物怎样得以在没有设计师的情况下被创造出来。
20. Dawkins's Biomorph Land was a fertile, but puritanical, place that hadn't a hint of sex.
道金斯的生物形态王国是丰饶但却有些像清教徒禁欲主义的地方，那里没有一点性的迹象。
