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Population Simulator

What is population simulator?

Based on this youtube channel, my friend Jay Kakkar and I built this side project over the pandemic. The main idea is that there is a population and they eat things in order to evolve and survive. We used this project as a refresher for a lot of the key concepts we’ve learned throughout the years such as breadth-first search (BFS), depth first search (DFS), A* search algorithm and object oriented design in Java. It’s also a nice way to learn user interface in Java. There are an overwhelming amount of directions for this project given natural links to AI and genetic programming. As I’ve been a little swamped with getting into grad school, we’ve put this on pause. But, below there is an example of a very large random population foraging.