Ant Colonies

An implementation of Kenneth Stanley's NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) that follows this paper: https://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf. In this implementation, ants in a colony share a network, and the entire colony is evaluated.

Results seem to occur at around 500-1000 generations

How to run

1. Install Processing
2. Clone this repo
3. Open the repo in the PDE
4. Run it

Play around with values inside of the params.pde file (rerun the program to apply parameter changes)

Controls

• Click and drag to move
• Click an ant or colony to view more details
• Scroll to zoom
• + or - to change simulation speed
• o or p to change the number of generations skipped between rendered ones
• n to skip to the next generation