ALiEn is a GPU-based physics engine focused on demands for artificial life computations. It contains a software tool designed to simulate digital organisms embedded in artificial ecosystems and to mimic conditions for (pre-)biotic evolution.

The software features

• realistic physical computations of kinematic and thermodynamic processes of damageable and glueable rigid bodies
• programmable matter for simulating digital organisms and evolution
• built-in graph editor for designing own machines
• simulation and rendering on GPU

For further information and video material please also visit

• website: alien-project.org
• YouTube channel: youtube.com/channel/UCtotfE3yvG0wwAZ4bDfPGYw

Please visit alien-project.org for a comprehensive documentation of the program and the underlying model.

You can build alien using Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or higher. The solution file is contained in msvc/Gui/alien.sln. The following external libaries are necessary:

• Qt 5.8 or higher
• boost library version 1.65.1 should be installed in external/boost_1_65_1 of the repository
• CUDA 9.0
• gtest framework is already contained in the repository in external/gtest

There is also a Windows installer with 64 bit binaries available at alien-project.org.

alien is licensed under the GPLv3.