Organisms

An organism is a container. Organisms contain one or more genome and one or more brain along with methods to produce offspring and track lineages.

Organisms contain:

• ID - a unique identifier
• Brains - a list of brains belonging to this organism
• Genomes - a list of genomes belonging to this organism
• dataMap - a DataMap used to store data for output
• timeOfBrith - when was this organism created
• timeOfDeath - when did this organism die?
• alive - is this organism currently alive
• ancestors - list of the IDs belonging to ancestors of this organism (which ancestors exactly is determined by the optimizer)
• parents - a list pointing to this organisms parent(s)

Coding with Organisms

shared_ptr<Organism> makeMutatedOffspringFrom(shared_ptr<Organism> parent)

creates an new organism by copying the parents genome and then applying mutations.

shared_ptr<Organism> makeMutatedOffspringFromMany(vector<shared_ptr<Organism>> from)

creates a new organism by combining features from the parents and applying mutations.

Genetic Markers

We plan to add genetic markers (currently under development in SexyOptimizer) to organisms at some point.