Saol. Copyright © 2025-2026, Michael Pascale. All rights reserved.
A virtual environment in which to study spatial nagivation, attention, orientation, and learning. From an Irish Gaelic word for life, including the encompassing conditional aspects of the world (environmental context). Implemented in C# for the Unity Engine.
Build Requirements:
- Unity 6 LTS (6000.0.40f1, Unity Technologies) Mono Runtime with .NET Standard 2.1.
Parquet.NET (5.1.1, Ivan Gavryliuk) Used for efficient storage of behavioral data (docs).- ImageSharp (2.1.10, SixLabors) Used for processing of image stimuli (docs).
The C# dependencies can be installed with NuGet for Unity (Patrick McCarthy).
At time of writing, development was conduted under Fedora 41 Workstation (Linux 6.13.7-200.fc41.x86_64) with the .NET 9.0.103 SDK.
A virtual open field, composed of procedurally generated hexagonal tiles in an arbitrary arrangement.
An enclosed space, generated from hexagonal tiles. Arbitrary stimuli appear on the walls, emulating an art gallery.
The following tasks make use of the Saol navigation experiment engine.
Additional Requirements: