VirtualZoo

A simulator for growing artificially intelligent organisms.

• Please see Computer Consciousness for the motivation of this project.
• Please see Organism Design for the design principles and the assumptions / limitations of the simulation design.
• TODO list for project

Prerequisites

• CGAL should be provided by the package manager of the Linux distribution.
• SDL, SDL_image and SDL_ttf have build dependencies - see https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/README-linux#build-dependencies for needed packages.
• C++ v17 is a prerequisite
• The git repos of SDL2, SDL2_Image and SDL2_ttf have to be soft-linked into the root folder (as SDL, SDL_image, and SDL_ttf).

Build instructions

Standard cmake workflow:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Running the simulation

• You can press to pause the simulation.

References

• Beetle PNG file was downloaded from https://www.pngwing.com/en/free-png-xyjou
• Bush PNG was downloaded from https://clipart-library.com/clipart/bushes-cliparts-3.htm