DigiHive

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DigiHive is an abstract environment for artificial life modeling. The environment simulates a large number of entities called particles (represented by hexagonal tiles) on two dimensional continuous space with periodic boundary conditions. The particles move and collide according to rules of simplified classical mechanics (including conservation of energy and conservation of momentum laws). After the collision two particles can bond together forming a complex of particles.

At the higher level of description complexes of particles are capable to recognize and manipulate other structures of particles around them. The description of function performed by a complex is contained in its internal structure (i.e. types and location of particles inside it). The structure of each complex is then interpreted as a program written in a specially defined Prolog like language.