NEAT-cars

A basic complete ground-up implementation of the NEAT algorithm to enable cars to learn how to drive a user-created track. Built with inbuilt Python libraries and Pygame for visualization.

Currently, there is no functionality to draw the track.

• Draw the track using any image editing software ( Black colour => Path )
• The starting position of the car must be a path.
• The dimensions of the image should be 280x225 for performance

Requirements

To run the script, you'll need the following Python packages:

• pygame==2.3.0

Installation

To get started, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repository to your local machine.
2. Create a virtual environment (optional but recommended).
3. Install the required packages using pip.
4. Run main.py

Acknowledgements

• Credits to The Coding Train for the inspiration. Nice Video Series on the topic: Introduction to Neuroevolution
• Also check out this cool video where I borrowed some ideas for the car Self-Driving Car with JavaScript

Author

Varun

Have fun :)