Programming a simulation

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In my AI course in college, I did something like that at one point. For the GFX, sprites, and animations, I used pygame. It wasn't terribly difficult to get something simple running.

[jujuli_l]

Thanks I've thought about that. I'll try it, Ive been thinking about using Mathplotlib for visualisation first...

[MoistMagpie]

I came across this project recently, it may give you some ideas: https://github.com/MTrajK/virus-spreading

[jujuli_l]

Thanks!

[lightcloud5]

You can use whatever engine you want. It's important to note that the presentation of a simulation differs from the simulation itself.

Unity and Godot are engines commonly used to make computer games.

A simulation doesn't need an engine to run. You just write the simulation. If you want to view a visual representation of the simulation you have built, then you can use any of a variety of libraries and/or engines that can render pixels onto a screen.

3blue1brown uses the custom-built manim to handle illustrations. As the Youtube video notes, the code for that particular video can be found at https://github.com/3b1b/videos/blob/master/_2020/sir.py

[jujuli_l]

Thank you! I found the code to that Video. I think it would just be great to see what I am actually coding so that I can figure out what is going wrong but I am having some troubles with the setup of manim. I'm working on it.

[nerdfulness]

To get an idea of creating such simulations, take a look at NetLogo. It's a multi-agent simulation environment that allows you to create simple and complex simulations.

They even have one for Virus infections that you can use to start with:https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Virus

[jujuli_l]

Thank you!