What is A-Life?

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In essence, A-Life is an atomic-based virtual life simulator. What this means is that its purpose is to simulate atomic reactions such as those studied in chemistry. Anything from a pulsating ball of atoms to a hungry caterpillar can and have been simulated on A-Life, nothing short of amazing. Now, you can simulate development of life on Mars from your home before NASA discovers it. Simulate new forms of life that might be found deep in space. Simulate the beginning of life on our planet and anything else that comes to mind.

A-Life features

• Realistically portrays atomic reactions;

• Visually shows reactions taking place;

• Prints reactions taking place in the status bar;

• Project interface allows user to influence the "planet";

• Catalystic mixing allows grouping of elements and faster reaction time;

• Planet can be renamed to the name of your choice;

• Total numbers of all elements are calculated in real-time;

• Selectable background music that plays at the frequency of the amount of objects;

• On-screen statistics that analyze the music channel level, life, air, water, and activity;

• Temperature control allows the user to slow down or speed up movement;

• Environmental controls allow the user to add gravity and lighting to certain entity groups;

• Artificially intelligent organisms that live and die in the planet;

• Ability to import and export planet data to allow saving, loading, and merging;

• Screen capture takes a snapshot of the planet to save as a Windows bitmap;

• Status bar data can be saved to the hard drive as raw data, ASCII text, or HTML;

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