Live Microbe Wallpaper Evolution

[vino210]

I've noticed that the live microbes wallpaper changes after it's been on for a while. The wallpaper is comprised of small oblong circles of different colors scurrying around consuming white dots that pop up randomly around the screen and when you touch the wallpaper directly. When the microbes consume dots, they grow. Once they grow enough, they split. If a microbe doesn't eat any white dots for about 30 seconds, it dies. New microbes don't seem to just pop up and so all the microbes on the screen are descended from the original population. So, after about a week of letting the wallpaper just exist, the ratio of different colored microbes changes dramatically. Some colors have completely disappeared and one color is clearly dominant. After a longer time, only one color will remain. I've seen it happen 3 times since I've had my GS2 and it rests to a new population of microbes when I restart the phone.
Has anyone else noticed this or have I just read too much Dawkins?

 

[jancat]

Is this theme specific to your phone? Sounds like intended functionality. Sorry.

 

[vino210]

Is this theme specific to your phone? Sounds like intended functionality. Sorry.

This wallpaper came preloaded on my Galaxy S2, but I've seen it on the Nexus S too. I think its working properly; even though it sucks up a lot of battery life. I just thought it was an interesting piece of coding given how it demonstrates the natural evolution of a population. I'm a biologist so I thought maybe I was looking too closely and making connections that aren't really there. Richard Dawkins did some programs like this that showed virtual beings evolving, but as far as I know never so autonomously.