A hobby project about evolution.
This simulation is about how much food a robot can collect in a given world. At the beginning of the simulation robots are generated with random genes, then all robots are simulated, this is called a cycle.
The world is made up of a grid like structure. A cell may contain food or not. If the robot goes out of the world bounds it wraps around on the other side.
The robot moves around the world in a pattern determined by its genes. While moving around it scannes for food. Moving around costs energy gathering food gives energy. Once the energy drops below 0 the robot dies. Fitness is a measurement on how much food was collected by the robot.
An array of bytes which determine the direction of the next move,
eg. genes = [2, 1, 4, 5, 3, 7, 4, 0]. The direction is a number between 0 and 7.
After each cycle the top 50% are allowed to reproduce. The bottom 50% will be removed. Reproduction is done by copying the genes of a robot and changing them in length and/or value.