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Implementation of Tom Ray's Tierra model for Mac OS X
About
This is a Macintosh implementation of Tom Ray's Tierra: http://life.ou.edu/tierra/
It's an independent implementation by Simon Fraser
This is a Mac OS X rewrite, with a platform-neutral engine, and a Cocoa front-end. It requires macOS 10.12 (Sierra) or later, and runs natively on Intel (x86_64) and Apple Silicon devices.
Please send bugs and feedback to Simon Fraser <smfr at smfr . org>
How to build
Building requires macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and the matching version of Xcode.
Open MacTierra.xcodeproj, choose the MacTierra target, and build (Release or Debug, as you wish; Release will run much faster).
If you want to rebuild the Boost C++ libraries, see Docs/build-boost.sh
Tips & Tricks
Use Command-Option-N to make a new, empty soup with mutation turned off.
Genebank
MacTierra creates a "genebank" file at ~/Library/Application Support/MacTierra/Genebank.sql, in which it stores successful genotypes. You can view the genebank via the Window->Genebank menu item. Genotypes can be dragged into an empty soup to run them.
Version History
0.8 First release of Mac OS X version.
1.0 Rebuilt on Mac OS X 10.6, with Boost 1.44.0 Built 64-bit. Significantly faster than 0.8 Mac OS X 10.5 or later is required to run. New soup format; soup files not compatible with 0.8.
1.1 Rebuilt for macOS Sierra (10.12) as an Intel/ARM fat binary. Updated Boost to 1.83 Removed dependency on OpenGL for soup display.
Known issues
Saving soups in XML format crashes sometimes (bug in boost serialization). Soups may not be compatible between 32- and 64-bit binaries.
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