ACHILLES(1)

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✨ ACHILLES(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

🦋 NAME

okay so bestie, achilles is an OpenGL simulation of artificial life and evolution 🧚 it's giving sci-fi world energy and I'm obsessed 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS

achilles [-x <num of blocks in x axis> ] [-z <num of blocks in z axis> ]
[-f <num of initial foods> ] [--fps <target FPS> ] [--debug] [ <num of
initial creatures> ] [-v] [-h]

💜 DESCRIPTION

ngl this is giving main character energy 👑 this manual page is a quick little tour of the achilles commands ✨ It's an artificial evolution simulation built on Hebbian neural networks and ideas from Larry Yaeger's PolyWorld 🌈 Want to know the default values for the options? Just run achilles -h and it'll spill all the tea 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS

  • -x <num of blocks in the x axis> — how big the world is along the x axis 🌍 Default: 6 💖
  • -z <num of blocks in the z axis> — how big the world is along the z axis 🌍 Default: 6 💖
  • -f <num of initial foods> — how many food items you get at the very start 🍓 Default: 3
  • --fps <target FPS> — your target frames per second 🎞️ Default: 60
  • --debug — turns on debug output 🙈
  • <num of initial creatures> — how many creatures the world kicks off with 🦋
  • -v — outputs the version number 🔥
  • -h — outputs a help text 🧚

🎮 CONTROLS

  • Arrow Keys — move around the world 🦋 Up and Down take you forward and back, while Left and Right turn you with respect to the y axis 💅
  • PageUp / PageDown — move up and down the y axis 🌈
  • ESC — quits the program 💀

👑 AUTHOR

Matthew Danish <mrd@debian.org> is the icon behind this one 🫶 shoutout to them ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO

bestie, that's the whole achilles page 💖 last updated February 10, 2026 🌸 Go forth and simulate, bestie 🦋✨

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