Description: Petri dish life simulator inspired by Jason Spafford's
- Primordial Life screensaver/program. Biots float in a petri dish.
- When they gather enough energy they reproduce.
- When they don't have enough energy, they die.
Colors define function:
- Green Generates energy each cycle
- Red Takes energy from others upon collision
- Blue No action at this time.
- White Protects biot from attack.
Degrees of Freedom: Variables that determine which biots flurish
- Energy Cost for each line segment
- Collision energy cost.
Helpful for population density control
Developed w/ the help of the following Links:
- http://programarcadegames.com/
- http://simpson.edu/computer-science/
- http://www.petercollingridge.co.uk/book/export/html/6
Special thanks to Peter Collingridge at:
pygame requires external c/c++ libraries. When installing from pip, these dependencies must be met beforehand.
Using homebrew:
brew install brew install sdl sdl_image sdl_mixer sdl_ttf smpeg portmidi
Then you can install python dependencies as usual:
pip install -r requirements.txt