Bibliographic description:
Yavorskyi, Hermann. Implementation of the efficient truly two-dimensional artificial life simulation: Bachelor Thesis: manuscript / Hermann Yavorskyi; Supervisor: Oleg Farenyuk; Ukrainian Catholic University, Department of Computer Sciences. – Lviv: 2021. – 28 p.: ill.
Abstract:
This work aims to develop an efficient implementation of the two-dimensional
artificial life simulation Fungera (Yavorskyi, 2021, GitHub). Initial Python-based implementation
of the Fungera allowed to verify that the two-dimensional approach
is viable to study evolutionary processes. Nevertheless, this prototype implementation
is too slow to study emerging evolutionary innovations and emerging ecological
relations efficiently. One-dimensional simulator Tierra, the first successful
artificial life evolution simulator, required several million iterations for the emergence
of parasites, hyperparasites, “social behavior”, and so on. Because of its twodimensional
nature, Fungera would require orders of magnitude more time for such
events leading to many weeks of simulations using Python-based implementation.
So, this work aims to develop efficient implementation based on C++. It should
support easy modification of the instruction sets used by the simulation. The other
way this project can be considered as an experiment on two-dimensional computer
architectures, inspired by the esoteric programming language Befunge.
