Biogenesis Biogenesis - Simulates in a visual fashion the processes involved in the evolution of unicellular organisms at nature
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Biogenesis - Simulates in a visual fashion the processes involved in the evolution of unicellular organisms at nature Biogenesis simulates in a visual fashion the processes involved in the evolution of unicellular organisms at nature. Biogenesis tries to be a didactic approximation to the ideas of mutation or evolution and can be enjoyed also as an entertainment. It's intended to serve as a support to show students some basic biological facts.The idea of Biogenesis is taken from Primordial Life but it's an independent project.All the simulation is done through organisms formed by colored segments. Every color has a meaning, so it's easy to know what an organism does simply by looking at it. Organisms reproduce and their descendants are similiar but have some mutations that make them unique. Only those who have positive mutations will be able to survive and reproduce, so evolution occurs.Organisms have different metabolisms, and will interact both with the environment and other organisms, which in turn are also affected by the biological processes that take place.Here are some key features of "Biogenesis":· Evolution· Mutation· Genetic code· Metabolism· Photosynthesis· Respiration· Carbon cycle· Oxygen cycle· Limiting factor· EcosystemRequirements:· Java 1.5 or later What's New in This Release: · biogenesis (0.5); · Network: added connections between different world. · Network: added corridors to send organisms through connections. · Network: added a dialog to manage connections. · Network: added a dialog to configure network settings. · New parameters to activate OpenGL. · Added an uninstaller. · Added an option to kill all organisms. · Added killed and infected counters to the organism's state window. · Added toolbars with the main options in each circunstance. · Added mnemonics in menu options. · Added number of kills and number of infected in the information window. · Now the program dinamically adapts its speed to the computer performance. · Show current and last version in a better format. · Show some information messages in the status bar. · Changed default parameters to have a smaller and faster world. · Remove Vectors and convert them to Lists. · Added comments in many files. · Some speed optimization. · Fixed a bug that prevented some corpses to dissapear. · Fixed a bug that prevented the initial organisms number from being saved between sessions. · Fixed a bug that let the user to kill a dead organism if the context menu was showed before the organism died. · Updated documentation. · Other minor details. biogenesis (0.4); · Added Spanish translation (program and documentation). · Added a genetic code editor (genetic laboratory). · Now the application can act as an applet as well. · Added an option to save a JPG image of an organism. · Added status bar with basic world statistics. · Added an option to launch the web browser at the manual page. · Added an option to check the last released version. · Added new parameters to control the probability of a color appearing in a segment and the energy cost that using each color implies. · Added a tab in the parameters window to configure these parameters. · Added options to increase or decrease the carbon dioxyde in a running world. · Added an option to disperse all corpses back into the environment. · Adapted to Java 5 and compiled for this version. This makes execution faster. · Changed the mutation rate parameter to allow values lesser than 1%. · Changed the way genetic codes are saved and restored. Now exported files are in XML. · Fixed a bug that makes organisms with more than 64 segments appear when the symmetry mutates. · Fixed a bug that makes the visible world to be bigger than the world when world size changed. · Increased the unit increment of scroll bars to facilitate navigation. · Updated about window to give some more information. · Updated documentation. · Other minor details. biogenesis (0.3); · Started internationalization process. · Added English translation (program and documentation). · Menu bar instead of buttons. · Added a lot of user interaction. · Changed organism's metabolisms: processes are more realistic now. · Added oxygen and carbon dioxide instead of abstract substances. · Changed the meaning of some segment colors. · Now corpses remain in the world while they have energy. · Since carbon is constant in the world, population stabilizes and doesn't keep growing for ever. · Better parameters window. · Now delay can be changed without restarting. · Don't ask file name if already has one. · Added scroll bars to move through worlds bigger than the window. · Changed class names to conform standards. · Updated documentation. · Other minor details. biogenesis (0.2.1); · Fixed parameters window visualization problems. · Better draw process: only draw organisms that move. · Better exception handling when loading files. · Information frames now appear always on top. · Other minor details. biogenesis (0.2); · Now organisms collide in a more realistic way. · Fixed organisms growth. · Colors are calculated only once now. · Ask for confirmation when overriding a file. · Added a dialog to configure parameters. · Now parameters are stored outside the source. · Deactivate antialiasing if there are a lot of organisms. · Updated documentation. · Other minor details. biogenesis (0.1); · Initial release.

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