Pollinate the flowers you prefer! See the emergent patterns appear!

Play forever! Bore yourself to death!

License

Apache 2.0

Explanation

Bee is a simple game that takes the ideas from Richard Dawkins' programs to simulate evolution. Your goal here is to choose the flowers you prefer (click on them!). As you pollinate those, they'll become the new base for future mutations. Keep choosing flowers forever and enjoy the different drawings! It's simple.

Background

I only had a couple of days to make this, and I had zero experience with Swing... It's not hard but... Javaaaaaaaargh

In any case. The idea comes from one of my students who gave me Richard Dawkins' The blind watchmaker as a present when the course ended. I'm reading the book and I thought it could be cool to try to code some of Dawkins' programs.

I chose Kawa because I'm looking for an effective way to send software for my clients that use Windows without using windows. See my blog post.

The idea of using flowers is from my wife.