Definitions for "Achilles"
Keywords:  hero, iliad, hector, troy, warrior
a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the seige of Troy.
A piercing of the skin overlying the Achilles Tendon just above the heel.
Greek hero from Thessaly, the main character in Homer's Iliad.
An OpenGL simulation of artificial life and artificial evolution using neural networks and genetic algorithms based on Larry Yaeger's PolyWorld.
Achilles is a simulation of Darwinian evolution in a virtual world composed of virtual organisms. It uses Hebbian neural networks, and an extremely simplified physics model that allows virtual organisms to interact freely in the simulated environment.
The Achilles was an English shaft-drive voiturette manufactured by B Thompson in Frome, Somerset between 1904 and 1908. A range of cars were advertised, mostly with single cylinder engines by De Dion. Other mechanical parts were also bought in and it seems likely that only the bodies were originated by Achilles.