population-evolution

A visual mechanism to observe individuals' genetic changes over iterations on population algorithms

population-evolution

A visual mechanism to observe individuals' genetic changes over iterations on population algorithms

This MATLAB function allows the user to observe the evolutive progress of its solutions population. It produces a bar plot figure, which updates at generation steps, with the following axis:

• x-axis: Individuals
• y-axis: Variables
• z-axis: Values

The function runs after the syntax: [populationEvol] = popevol(pop, maximal_generation, population_size) In which the input arguments are:

• pop = A matrix with all the individuals generated over all the generations, so the number of rows is the number of individuals times the number of generations.
• maximal_generation = the number of max generations untill the algorithm stops. So the function knows the number of times to update the plot
• population_size = the number of individuals per generation. To enable the plot to group each population to its respective generation correctly.

The function generates a video file called "popevol", saved in the current folder where the code runs from.