Microbe Hosting

Microbe has moved house!
The application is now hosted as part of the Portfolio project for Hugo's module.
http://www.spinningcreations.co.uk/Portfoliopages/Microbe/classes

Online here

Microbe is online here but he won't be for long!!!

Concept and Expansion

The concept of microbe is a simulation of a microorganism (such as a virus) interacting with an environment with positive and negative consequences. It was inspired by the way in which anti-viruses work against virus cells within the human body, and how biotic and viral infections can tolerate antibiotics and antibodies.

Scope for expansion:
I would like to implement an evolutionary adaptation to the Microbe, so it can build an immunity to the drugs it encounters. I would also like to implement different strains of the Microbe virus, that have different tolerance levels and immunity.
It would also be interesting to think about reproduction and multiplication of the virus.
Originally, I [planned that the microbe would not feed off the random grid, but instead feed off regular screenshots of a users activity. In this way a user could control, by his activity, the life (or untimely death) of the organism.
I'd like also to modify the interface, so users can interact more with Microbe, by choosing how many microorganisms there are, and controlling their tolerance levels.

Final Organism

Download it here

Web development.

Hooray! Finally have a working, embedded applet, in an (as yet offline) website.

Success!!!!

(He's dead!)

The red dot is my organism. Pink dots are poison. And when he's eaten more that 10 pink squares, there's too much poison in his body, and he dies.

Took me a while, and a lot of help from Martin, but it goes! Hooray!

My organism has a lifecycle!

Aaargh!

It's not working!! GUI development in Java seems the most pernickety thing in the world- jDev is never happy!!! But, it's ok, I have a working model, and the time to produce a view easily. So its all good.
Breathe...