An evolution simulator featuring neural networks and the occasional orange.
In 2015, for NaNoGenMo, I made randomly-generated characters fight to the death on a map for the sake of writing interesting diary entries. They weren't very good at either of those things.
After falling down a YouTube rabbit hole one day, I came across various evolution simulators and then one that also used neural networks for its creatures. This sounded promising! So I tapped away at my keyboard until some things appeared on the screen with the aim of plugging in or reimplementing parts of my novel generator.
This is still a work in progress and this may change, but roughly:
$ pip install pygame
$ pip install cython
$ git clone https://github.com/flexo/evolutron.git
$ cd evolutron
$ python evolutronYou will need Python 3.3 or higher. Sometimes this means the pip command will be called 'pip3' and the python command will be called 'python3'.
If you make a change and get the following error, delete ~/.pyxbld:
ImportError: Building module group failed: ['ValueError: ________________ has the wrong size, try recompiling. Expected ___, got ___\n']
This code is licenced under the MIT license; see LICENSE for the full text.
Essentially this means you can do what you wish with the code. An attribution to http://github.com/flexo would be appreciated.
(Please note that this license does not apply to my Youtube videos or other resources external to this repository.)