It's obvious that I'm not good an regular updates. In the attached video I shaded the environment grid with the concentration of carbon dioxide. You can see it start to deplete as the simulation runs.

Wow! It's been 2 weeks?
I decided it was time to work on the UI. I needed some better components. More to come, but here are the first few new components. An organism selector, by name. And a selectable interface for which compounds will be displayed on the screen.

Just for the fun of it here is a video I recorded the other day.

Just a couple quick notes. I added a average calculation for the amount of each compound the organism has. I thought it would help in tracking down what actually is happening with the gain, or loss of compounds over time.

Just a quick update.
Changes: prevented organisms from escaping the boundaries.
debugged the organism copy function which is used to create the child object.
Status:
Managed to run the simulation with a single starting organism out to 7 generations before the environment ran out of CO2.

they have multiplied!!!!

I also spent a good deal of time working on optimizing the speed of the code so I could increase the simulation speed.

Also, I implemented separate environment grid sections so that each grid section could independently track the environmental compounds.

After looking at my previous post a month ago, I decided I had better at least mention the major changes since then.

I'm skipping all the catchup I was planning(I didn't start posting here till I had been working on this for several months) and jump straight to where I'm at today. The past few weeks have been a lot of running the simulation, checking the log for expected behavior.

Next up was movement. Each organism could react to distance from other organisms, distance to a wall, and intensity of light(up is higher).

After getting the basic biological processes running I wanted to move on to growth. I really wanted to include appendages, and other features to the organisms, but I couldn't figure out a way to accomplish it. So I decided to just work on growth of a circle.

After a couple painfully slow weeks of work(since my free time for this stuff is pretty limited) I managed to get the most basic process working. It wasn't much to look at but it was doing everything I needed under the hood.

Since I had previous experience with Game Maker studio(gamemaker.io/en) I decided that it would probably be a good starting point for this project.

Oh cool! I found a web version of SimLife to play!
archive.org/details/msdo...

I think my first exposure to an evolution simulation was with simlife in the early 90's.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjZO...
Man, that was good times!

I wanted to start blogging my experiences with my current programming project.
Several months ago I decided I wanted to start to explore evolution through a programmed simulation. It's something that's been on my mind in one form or another for many many years.

First!