We are glad to announce the fourth release of Artificial Life.

Apart some bug fixes and some additions in the API, the main change of this version is the addition of one new example: My World.

My World is a simplistic world populated by males and females searching food to survive. They move randomly avoiding obstacles and use an euristic algorithm when running out of food to find their way to the food distributors. Any of them may die if they failed to find food distributor. They reproduce them-selves if they are adult within the same generation. A female can create randomly up to three children. My World implements a service that controls the population and if a maximum of thirty individuals is reached, the service kills the older ones. Any of them may as well die if getting too old.

This version fixes as well a critical issue in the Installer for Windows Vista and Windows 7.

You can download the installer for Microsoft Windows here or the zip file here for the other operating systems that support Java . Both packages contain the source code.

As a prerequise, you will need to have Java 1.5 or above already installed on your computer.

Have fun!