vaga / Goternity

Eternity II Puzzle solver in Golang.

Goternity

What is Eternity II ?

The Eternity II puzzle, aka E2 or E II, is a puzzle competition which was released on 28 July 2007.[1] It was published by Christopher Monckton, and is marketed and copyrighted by TOMY UK Ltd. A $2 million prize was offered for the first complete solution. The competition ended at noon on 31 December 2010, with no solution being found. Wikipedia - Eternity II Puzzle

Install

$ cd PATH/goternity
$ go get
$ go run main.go

Help

Usage of ./goternity:
    -in="new": Input file : [name].goternity
    -loop=100: Loop repetition : 100
    -out="result.goternity": Output file : [name].goternity
    -pop=100: Population size : 100
    -render="render.png": Render file : [name].png

Alogrithm

Initialize population with random candidate solutions
Evaluate each candidate     

while termination criterion has not been reached
{
    Selection;
    Crossover;
    Mutation;
    Evaluation;
}