Interactive Controls

The UI is built around parameters that visibly affect convergence. Population size changes the amount of search per generation. Mutation rate controls exploration. Elite share controls exploitation. Gravity, wind direction, wind magnitude, ball size, and target size change the underlying physics problem.

Changing a control reconfigures the simulation immediately. The existing ranked genomes are resized where possible, the target is clamped back into valid bounds, and the population starts adapting under the new conditions.

• Drag the target to make the population solve a new point.
• Change gravity and wind to alter the field forces.
• Pause, reroll, and reset controls make convergence behavior comparable across runs.
• Ghost paths show top attempts beyond the single best trajectory.