MicroCosmos

Fun little Unity evolution simulator.

Preview

Macro view sub-colonies: Manual controls: Cell eats and bursts: Basic plotting: Detailed plotting:

TODO

• Divine intervention to recycle fat
• Include chemical blobs in save
• Flagella:
  • Force scales with mass
  • Display flagella as ring (color and spin speed indicates relative power)
• Membrane:
  • Display membrane as ring around cell (thickness indicates relative mass)
  • As a jumpstart, have cell thickness controlled by a static gene.
• Orifice:
  • Ability for cells to ingest substances from the environment using it's orifice
  • Flow rate is governed by mass of chemical pump substance and indicated by width of pump
  • Absolute membrane thickness limits pump speed
  • Maintaining relative mass of pump is an involuntary reaction
• Ability for cells to sense nearby obstacles
  • Separate logit for each target type (inert obstacle, cell, chemical blob)
• Ability for cells to sense other cells
  • Mass by substance
  • Distance
  • Incoming velocity
  • Degree of separation (genealogically speaking)
  • Cost of sensor is proportional to range
  • Inter-cell communication signals (3 channels visualized a RGB)
• Ability for cells to sense nearby substances
  • Mass by substance
  • Cost of sensor is proportional to range
  • Cost of sensor is proportional to number of substances
• Ability for cells to sense obstacles like walls
• Bigger brains
• Egg laying
• Saprotrophs
• Murder
  • Stab
  • Drop poison
• Plot colony statistics in grapher
  • Cell count
  • Chemical blob count
  • Total mass
  • Global events system: Number of births, deaths and miscarriages and deaths by child birth.
• Color chemical blobs by contents
• Ability to toggle Grapher plots.
• Save
  • Stenographer streaming file compression