Field window
A field window has nine sub windows each of which shows a score of individual
in a population. You can select one or more individuals to be parents for
the next generation. Repeating the operations of selection and reproduction,
you can breed a short musical piece of sixteen beats.
Playing music
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Clicking the button labeled Play all individuals at the upper
left corner of the field window starts or stops playing the music of all
of individuals in the window consecutively from top left to bottom right.
Pushing the return key has the same effect.
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Clicking a sub window or a small speaker button
at the left above each
individual starts and stops playing the music of the individual. Pushing an
arrow key moves the individual played, up, down, left and right.
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You can change a various options for play and development by operating
part option dialog and
player dialog.
Selecting individuals
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Clicking the check box above each individual labeled "Select it"
marks the individual as a selected parent. The color of the
frame changes to red, and a check mark appears on the check box.
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Clicking the check box again cancels the selection.
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Clicking a sub window with pressing a shift key has the same effect.
Reproducing offspring
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After selecting one or more individuals, clicking the button labeled
"this"
at the upper right of the field window produces the children of the next
generation from the selected parents. Non protected individuals
in the field window are replaced to these children.
This has the same effect as choosing the item of
Next in this field
of generate menu.
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Double click on the button labeled "Select it" at the center
above each individual replaces all of other non protected individuals by
its mutants. The information on selection is ignored and all of selections
are canceled.
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Clicking a small lock button
at
the right side of speaker button above each individual
protects the genome of the individual.
The color of the frame changes into blue
if it is not selected. It turns magenta
if selected. It suffers
with no effect in any operation of generation, such as reproducing next
generation in the same window.
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Clicking the button labeled "new" at the right top of the field
window produces a new field window filled by children reproduced from selected
parents in the original field window. This has the same effect as choosing
the item of Next in new field of
generate menu.
Moving individuals
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By copy & paste and drag & drop operations, you can
copy the genome and the score of an individual into another individual of the
same or another field window or into a bar of
any score window.
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With pressing an option key during drag & drop operation, you
can move one part in the individual.
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