This is a configuration file editor designed to choose parameter values before launching Evolife simulations.
Its use is rather intuitive. You may click directly on values you want to change, or navigate with arrows and use the [F2] key to edit values.
Pay attention to explanations displayed in this panel.
Simulmates emerging path formation
Display period
Max number of simulation steps
Directory where the simulation can be found
Programme to be executed
Parameter values that will be read by the programme
Name of the present Configuration Editor
local path to window icon
total number of walkers
Landscape on which path will be found
Image showing ground
Array giving altitudes on ground (may have lower resolution than ground image
Start point with format 20x30 where 20 and 30 are in % of width and height
End point with format 20x30 where 20 and 30 are in % of width and height
Agents' behaviour depends on three parameters.
Target attractiveness
Pheromone attractiveness
Aversion to slope
distance from which pheromone is perceived
Probability (in %) that the walker moves randomly
Additive noise (in %)
Pheromon is laid down eventually along the path, depending on two parameters:
amount of pheromone that is laid down on the path after completion
amount of pheromone that is laid down when going forward
Variation of deposit when path is longer or shorter than previous one (in %)
absolute amount of pheromone decrease per time unit
maximum amount of pheromon that a cell can carry