Oversimplified natural selection

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Documentation

Packages

• animals
  • all animal species inheriting from the Animal.
• interfaces
• models
  • animal package - parts of animal aggregated inside Animal class.
    • Attributes - contains all animal general attributes.
    • Needs - contains animal attributes and methods related to fulfilling its needs (e.g. hunger) and searching for goals (e.g. searchForGoal).
    • Movement - contains animal methods related to movement on the map: in specific direction or position.
    • Interaction - contains animal methods related to animal behaviour and interaction with environment.
  • Animal - parent of every animal specie.
  • Plant - parent of every plant specie.
  • GraphicalRepresentative - describes instances that can be rendered.
  • Representative - describes material/physical instances on map.
  • Spatial - describes instances with position on map.
• plants
  • all plant species inheriting from the Plant.
• services
  • Config - static class designed for reading .properties files inside configs directory.
• terrain - controls map
• ui
• utils

Ideas for expansion

• split size parameter into two: render_size and interaction_size.
• implement water need:
  • create non-paintableand durable spots aligned to border of each water field (let's say 10px spacing)
  • these spots would be water resources
• render instances with higher coords.y first

Design patterns

Used

• Factory method: for example Foxes and Rabbits are being created by static create factory method
• Facade: for example Simulation class takes advantage of a previously created facade. To make simulation work it uses only three methods, so whole complex system is hidden inside it all.
• Singleton: for example Simulation class, which is designed to have only one active instance.

To implement

• Adapter: just to make Plant and Animal to collaborate in some scenarios. Instead of writing semi-duplicated code Adapter can be used.

Naming

• classes: UpperCamelCase
• methods: lowerCamelCase
• variables: snake_case