Hello. I'm a 15-year old programmer interested in creating an evolutionary simulation on the chemical level.

 

Life is essentially self-replicating chemicals, which is what I want to simulate.

 

How would mechanics of such system work?

 

In other words, how does one get self-replication through chemical-reactions?

what do you mean by "self-replication" in chemicals?

 

something like Crystals growing or Rust production from Iron?

I was thinking along the lines of DNA/RNA.

 

Actually, more like virus-bacteria that gradually evolve to greater levels of complexity.

 

I had a program in mind, CORE_WARS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Wars

 

My problem with CORE_WARS is that it's 1-dimensional, non-evolving, and relies on an interpreter to read/execute the commands (instead of self-emergent behaviour through chemical-reactions).

so you`re after a fractal that emulates "life" at a chemical level?

or life at a cellular level, like cellular automata?

Already found what I was looking for: http://www.sq3.org.uk/Evolution/Squirm3/

 

It has working examples and lots of useful documents.