Usage

Installation

End-user installation

(.venv)$ pip install abrain

Precompiled wheels are available for most linux distributions, macosx and windows on python 3.8+. See https://github.com/kgd-al/abrain/wiki/wheels for the full list.

Editable install

Due to inconsistent behavior with pip editable install, it is recommended to instead clone the repository and use the built dedicated install command:

$ git clone https://github.com/kgd-al/abrain.git
$ ./commands.sh install-dev
OR
$ ./commands.sh install-dev-tests

By default these commands will produce a debug build with symbols, suitable for coverage monitoring. If you want a performance oriented build, instead use:

$ ./commands.sh install-cached release

Tutorials

• Basic usage
• Basic evolution
  • Helper classes
  • The main
    • Configuration
    • Variables
• CPPN
• Mutations

FAQ

Windows

Exporting an ANN through plotly requires UTF-8 encoding which is not the default. Setting an environment variable to PYTHONUTF8=1 fixes the problem

Kaleido

Rendering an ANN in non-interactive format requires either kaleido or orca. While the former is unavailable on some distributions, the latter seems out