Description: Petri dish life simulator inspired by Jason Spafford's

• Primordial Life screensaver/program. Biots float in a petri dish.
• When they gather enough energy they reproduce.
• When they don't have enough energy, they die.

Colors define function:

• Green Generates energy each cycle
• Red Takes energy from others upon collision
• Blue No action at this time.
• White Protects biot from attack.

Degrees of Freedom: Variables that determine which biots flurish

• Energy Cost for each line segment
• Collision energy cost.
  Helpful for population density control

Developed w/ the help of the following Links:

• http://programarcadegames.com/
• http://simpson.edu/computer-science/
• http://www.petercollingridge.co.uk/book/export/html/6

Special thanks to Peter Collingridge at:

• http://www.petercollingridge.co.uk/

pygame requires external c/c libraries. When installing from pip, these dependencies must be met beforehand.

Using homebrew:

brew install brew install sdl sdl_image sdl_mixer sdl_ttf smpeg portmidi

Then you can install python dependencies as usual:

pip install -r requirements.txt