The video that Max shared on Ant Colonization looked cool, so I did some further research.
I found that in the field of Ant Colony Optimization, the work done in 2004 by Marco Dorigo and Thomas Stutzle is highly cited. Particularly, this paper/book seems to be a great resource. The book includes a link to a webpage with various Ant Colony Optimization implementations that hasn't been modified since 2012.
According to our project overview, one way to approach our project is
Look for creative but underappreciated older methods papers in your field, especially where the author’s code is unavailable, where the implementation is in a very different language like FORTRAN or Perl, or where the provided code is poorly documented. A clean, easy-to-use implementation of an uncommon method often proves very valuable.
So I think that reimplementing one of the software packages listed on the website in Python would be a great way to do our project.
I noticed that the first entry was implemented in Omnet++, which is a C++ simulation library. It was also created in 1998, so a modern implemenation could be valuable. I couldn't find the 1998 version of the code, but I did find a 2005 post on omnet++'s website with a download link.
Looking at the source code, I think this is a good candidate for something to work on. I am open to feedback.