Organic Builder

This applet demonstrates an artificial chemistry. Each circle is an atom, that floats around and can become bonded to others to form a molecule. The reason for using a strange abstraction of chemistry like this is that you can do some really cool things in a simple system. The applet above takes you through some of the possibilities. Perhaps the coolest thing you can do is template replication - the process DNA uses to make copies of itself. If you choose the right rules in the applet above you can actually get this working - follow through the challenges to find out how.