etishere/elife

eLife serves as an educational tool, demonstrating basic principles of ecology, evolution, and behavior in a highly abstracted form. It allows observers to contemplate the emergence of complex behaviors from simple rules and the interplay between different forms of life within a shared environment.

eLife Simulation

Overview

eLife is a terminal-based simulation showcasing a simplified ecosystem of "emans," symbolic representations of life forms that interact within a confined environment. The simulation explores concepts of life, grouping behavior, predation, and reproduction through simple rules governing the actions of each eman.

Features

• Dynamic Environment: A grid where emans move, interact, and evolve over time.
• Diverse Life Forms: Emans represented by characters (A-Z, a-z), numbers (0-9), and symbols (!-)), each with unique behaviors.
• Grouping and Duplication: Emans form groups and can duplicate, simulating social behavior and reproduction.
• Predation: A chance-based mechanism where emans can "eat" each other to gain more life, with different probabilities for character vs. number emans.
• Adaptive Lifespans: Emans have lifespans that vary between 10 to 30 minutes, introducing natural selection dynamics.
• Continuous Evolution: The simulation evolves, with emans duplicating under certain conditions, and numeric/symbol/Cap(A-Z) emans showing a preference for eating.
• Gui: A Gui to change the emans life to your liking

Running the Simulation

Change line 81 if gnome-terminal is not installed or just install it.

GTK(Install this on your os): libgtk-3-dev

Run the compile executable:

chmod +x compile.sh ./compile.sh

Run the gui:

./gui

Understanding eLife

eLife serves as an educational tool, demonstrating basic principles of ecology, evolution, and behavior in a highly abstracted form. It allows observers to contemplate the emergence of complex behaviors from simple rules and the interplay between different forms of life within a shared environment.