brevis-us / brevis

A Functional Scientific and Artificial Life Simulator

brevis

brevis, an open-source, functional scientific and artificial life simulator.

brevis is a 3D scientific, artificial life and complex systems simulator where simulations are written in the functional programming language Clojure.

On the web: http://brevis.us Chat:

by Kyle Harrington ([e-mail]), 2011-2014. http://kyleharrington.com

Current Brevis version:

Citing:

Getting started:

[There is a prototype IDE that allows Brevis to be run with no extra software added. Be on the look out in 2014 for this fancy new version.]

brevis is designed to be compatible with Eclipse and a couple of Eclipse addons. These instructions should work with Eclipse versions on all major OS platforms.

1. Install Eclipse - The development environment - http://www.eclipse.org/

2. Install the EGit addon for Eclipse - Version control - http://www.eclipse.org/egit/

3. Install the CounterClockwise - Clojure support in Eclipse - http://code.google.com/p/counterclockwise/

4. Download brevis. Within Eclipse, Import Project->Team->Git URI, choose an address listed on https://github.com/kephale/brevis

5. One-time project configuration. Within Eclipse, right click on brevis (the project you just imported), choose Leiningen->Reset Project Configuration

Usage

Developed for use with the Clojure Eclipse plugin, CounterClockwise (this must be installed).

1. Open brevis.example.swarm

2. Menu: Clojure -> Load file in REPL

Controlling the simulation

Default input:

esc - kill the simulation
left click + drag - rotate camera
w - move camera forward
s - move camera backward
a - move camera left
d - move camera right
z - move camera up
c - move camera down
o - screenshot

License

Brevis is licensed under Apache License V2.

Copyright 2012, 2013, 2014 Kyle Harrington All rights reserved.