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Goo
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**Goo is an open-source Python library to simulate cells, tissues and embryos in Blender.**

Goo was designed as a platform to model collections of growing, self-replicating, autonomous, and interacting agents, enabling the exploration of tissue organization.
It connects together cellular biomechanics, molecular diffusion in the extracellular environment and gene regulatory networks at the cell-level. 

Users can takes advantage of Blender's rendering engines to render simulations in their preferred format, lighting, background and so much more. 

Goo is hosted on Github at https://github.com/smegason/Goo.

Getting started
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   :maxdepth: 2
   
   getting_started/installation.rst
   getting_started/example_scripts.rst
   user_guide/api.rst
   getting_started/hardware.rst   
   

Contributing
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   :maxdepth: 2
   
   developer_guide/developers.rst
   developer_guide/learning_resources.rst

Acknowledgments
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   :maxdepth: 2
   
   acknowledgment/citation.rst
   acknowledgment/contributors.rst


News
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Goo v1.1.0 is here! This release includes new features to simulate extracellular diffusion and gene regulatory networks. `More information. <https://github.com/smegason/Goo/releases/tag/v1.1.0>`__

Goo v1.0 is here! This is the first stable release after refactoring the codebase to be more efficient and close to Python. `More information. <https://github.com/smegason/Goo/releases/tag/v1.0.0>`__

Goo was presented at the 2023 Blender Conference in Amsterdam! `More information. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoMv7MnLFPc>`__