What’s up guys! Smaller update this time, but an important one…

I reorganized the project into folders first — all the ecosystem stuff now lives in Genetic_Algorithms/, since I’m about to start a second track of the project: Neuroevolution/.That’s right, I started learning how to actually give my creatures brains instead of hardcoded behavior! First step was building a single Perceptron from scratch — the simplest possible neural network, just one neuron with weights. I trained it to learn how to separate points above and below a line, and you can literally watch it learn live: it starts with a random decision line, and one point at a time it adjusts its own weights until the line converges to match the real one. Points get circled green when the perceptron guesses right and purple when it’s wrong, so you can watch it get better in real time.This is step one of a much bigger plan — eventually I want my creatures’ behavior to come from an evolved neural network instead of me hardcoding “flee predator, seek food.” A perceptron obviously can’t do that on its own, but it’s the building block everything else is made of, so I wanted to actually understand it before jumping straight to neuroevolution. Next up is stacking these into a real multi-layer network, and then evolving them instead of training them with math. Thanks for reading, see you next devlog!

What’s up guys! Big update this time…

I finally added predators — they hunt prey and meat, and now have their own mating animation that’s different from prey’s (gliding together with a little weave, nose-to-nose instead of tail-to-tail, then a baby appears). Prey also got real genders now, and mating actually mixes both parents’ DNA (with a chance of mutation) instead of just copying one parent. Prey can flee from predators too.The coolest new thing is “predatorify” — if a prey eats enough meat, it transforms into a predator! Still tuning how easy that should be to trigger.Also added a population graph (rolling + full history) and a click-to-inspect feature so I can click any creature and see its type, lifetime, health, gender, and DNA. Microorganisms are wandering around chasing meat now too.Basically this session was about making all the systems actually talk to each other — hunting, fleeing, mating, dying, and feeding back into the ecosystem. Starting to feel alive! Thanks for reading, see you next devlog!

What’s up guys! It’s me! And I am here to tell you my progress…

I think that this is the most progress I have made yet. I have made a lot of systems, and I am going to run you guys through it. The first system, is the actual environment, and actually made the triangles, but decided that I would make my own design and it is pretty simple. I also made debugging circles that you can turn on and of with right click, and you can add new preys with left click. I have the preys on the environment right now, but I am going to add all sorts of things later! Also, there is mating in the whole environment so the preys don’t get extinct. I am still playing around a bit in the parameters and I am going to add predators, since I added meat into the environment too. I really like this project, and I think I will keep going! Thank you for reading this devlog! (The video is a little taste and the show case of the environment)

I am here with the new information…

I made a new particle system to make a new vehicle that can pursue the mouse, and this will be a great way to start off since we need to teach the vehicle to move and pursue the target. We also need to teach them about avoiding the target. All I did was find a lot of information about that and finished making the particle system. I broke that particle system right now because I want to change that particle system into the vehicle. So I don’t have something to post in my pictures page right now so I just leave the picture of the very first none moving triangle vehicle, just so you can see the very first ever design of it.

What’s up guys, I finally started to start coding and…

Hello guys! I started to work on my code for this project! I decided to start from scratch, and start over! The tutorial wants me to use p5.js, but since I want to learn MORE :) I decided to right all of the code and the classes from the start and that is what made me code for THIS LONG! What I have right now is a circle that can accelerate and have velocity, and all of this is based off a custom class, and it also has custom vector creations! The whole this is really going along really well, and I really like the progress! Also, I can learn math along this journey! I hope you can follow along more in this journey and see you in the next devlog! This is the custom, accelerating, velocity, vector, sphere thing :) :

I am back with a new project! And it is not small…

I decided to start a new project, and it is a rather new type of project that I started to plan on. It is called DYCOSYSTEM. Dycosystem is a harware object either a cube or a sphere and there will be a syringe that can control the whole digital ecosystem. The sphere and the cube will both contain a special ecosystem, that will have digital life, and they will evolve as the time goes on. also, I will add special sounds to the animals to add sound and more diversity in the enviroment. I hope you guys can follow along my journey, and I hope I will finish this project! :) Today, I just went through youtube tutorials about vectors and inheriting and artificial life, so I couldn’t code, but still follow along! (I had nothing to add here so I just dropped a picture of my very simple plan below(IT IS ACTUALLY SO SIMPLE))