Biogenesis is an artificial life program that simulates the processes involved in the evolution of organisms. It shows colored segment based organisms that mutate and evolve in a 2D environment. Biogenesis is based on Primordial Life.

This repo contains my[fn:1] own changes to the Biogenesis source code. See http://biogenesis.sourceforge.net/ for original application.

Changes

Changes to the original application include:

Mavenized project

it is now much easier to build and release Biogenesis,

Family tree

it is possible to view the ancestors of a given organism,

Music

organisms can now make sounds when colliding,

Scripting

JRuby scripts can be used to extend Biogenesis,

• Several UI improvements,
• etc.

Building

Maven is required to build this project.

You must first ensure that the jfugue dependency is installed in your local Maven repository by running the following command at the root of your project:

mvn initialize

Once this is done, the project can be packaged by running the following command:

mvn package

This creates a JAR file in the target/ directory which can be executed directly.

License

Copyright (c) 2006-2010 Joan Queralt Molina
Copyright (c) 2006-2014 Biogenesis Development team \ Copyright (c) 2014-2020 Sébastien Le Callonnec

Licensed under GPLv2.

Footnotes

[fn:1] Sébastien Le Callonnec (tychobrailleur)