[Sussex] A-life resources

[Alan Delaney]

Hi all,

I've got a small a-life program that I'm trying to add some 
sophistication to.  What the program does is accept basic input 
parameters of the initial size of a colony, the size of the map, etc and 
runs until the colony dies out.  The program then returns the overall 
lifetime of the colony.  What I want to do is write a bash script that 
invokes the program and puts the result into a (text?) file that can 
then be read and interpreted by a PHP script that displays the result on 
a web-server.  I'm also considering allowing the PHP script to alter the 
input parameters essentially giving the program a web interface and 
using a MySQL database to collate the results but these are rather 
advanced ideas and I want to keep it as simple as possible for now.

What I need help on is finding if there are any similar projects (GPL or 
compatible obviously) that I could borrow code from rather than have to 
build this whole set-up from scratch.  I've been looking around Google 
on and off for some weeks now and haven't found anything interesting. 
Pretty much all of the AI/A-life sites I've found are either more 
complex than I need or are defunct.  Anybody have any ideas on this?



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