Algodoo

ezpz, any part can leave the box, but no direct attachments to the throwme box (axles, springs, fixjoints) are allowed, and you can't just exploit the rules to make a spring engine and drive indefinitely far. You can have an arm that extends as long as it uses no scripts. time to live is coo too.

Well, scisim, if i somehow created an artificial intelligence in a program as limited as algodoo, the best it could do is crash my computer. because of how there is no direct connection from a running algodoo scene and the internet, it couldn't have any real-world impact outside of my desk. and also, in my experience with AI, it will only try to reach the goal you give it, and it will almost always do it in the laziest way possible. for example, if you give an ai a bunch of limbs and joints and tell it to move to the right, it will probably find it easier to make a giant pole-like creature that just falls to the side, than to create a walking creature. one thing you learn in playing with AI is that it's very passive-aggressive, lazy, and follows the goal to the T, including any loopholes it can find to make its job easier.

Xray - that would be pretty cool to have a conscious AI contained in Algodoo. I have an interesting theory though, that consciousness may not actually be real, at least not the idea of consciousness most people think of. the technical definition of being conscious is to be aware of and respond to surroundings, and if that's all consciousness is, then a lot of creations in the Algobox are conscious. However, if we're talking about conscious and intelligent, I think only a few scenes can pass as narrowly intelligent, like Killinich's neural network creatures, as well as one of mine.

That's what i was getting at, scisim, that the only physical effect a scene can have is to slow down or crash my computer. I made a self-replicating circle that starts reproducing faster and faster because of its design, and if even one of its offspring escaped the chamber that kept their numbers limited, my computer would crash in under a minute.
Xray - i was going somewhere with what i said but i guess i never got there. consciousness, in the sense of being aware and responding to the environment and the self, definitely exists. But the fuzzy concept that appears when you ask if my red is the same as your red (that is, that when you and i see the color red, we have the same internal experience) or if you try to describe colors to a blind person, that's what i meant to get at. my argument is that that internal experience simply does not exist, as much as it feels like it to me and as much as you may say it feels like it to you. all that exists is the computation and convolution, separate from any free will or experience, like how a simple one-directional neural network looks. it's only computation, and the thing isn't really "alive".
I don't know if any of this made sense, but my point is that even the most intelligent brain is nothing more than a tangled mess of neurons that follow simple rules that produce ordered thought, and that there is no soul or will to it, it just does what it was built to do, to learn and change and produce copies of itself through use of the body it sits inside, but it can choose not to do that too.

of course, by saying choose, i didn't mean that it arbitrarily and spontaneously makes a decision, i really meant choose in the same way the YouTube algorithm chooses what to recommend you. it is a decision that is made purely as a result of computation, and would not happen a different way with the same input.

beams000 - I thought of doing that, but seeing as I have a set of faster script-based logic gates now, I don't need to.

I'm humbled. This is insane!

Also, just wanted to point out that for all entries, I run the entry a few times, record all the scores, and take the highest. This is just to prevent contestants from claiming a score without proof for it.

if math.sign just returns a boolean based on the sign of a number, which is my assumption, just replace math.sign(x) with (x>=0)

you know there's several built-in random number functions, right?

this doesn't really gimbal though, because firstly the engine turns the wrong way, second it doesn't turn more than a few degrees, and third the torque being applied to the vehicle is being directly generated by the lateral thrusters instead of the rotation of the thruster. I recommend having a controlled joint instead of thruster power to push it.

why is the pivot joint for the key so close to the end of the key?

It's been a hot minute since I looked at this scene, How did you do it scisim?

Oh, I see..... you used the template timer, didn't you? That one doesn't count lol

Algodooper - if you don't know what logic gates are, check them out here

go to your default browser to use the link, it won't work otherwise

Oh forgive me. I forgot to add controls and such. Adding them now.

Xray - the flickering I was talking about was the neurons in the xor gate spontaneously and briefly changing value, most specifically the output neuron. A moment after it enters a neutral state, it tends to flicker.

It could but I don't know any reliable way to script a toggle button.

I don't know if you guys read dates on scenes but I was In kindergarten when this scene was posted, and I'm graduating high school this year. Point is, this person hasn't posted since 2009, so there's just no way they will respond in 2022.

it's like you tried to make this as bad as possible.

Yeah, Algodoo hasn't been updated for nearly a decade now. Real shame, because it's an amazing program with lots of potential if ever it got updated again. I'd pay for it if it meant well-known bugs could be fixed and new features could be added, and I'm sure other users would too.

inertiaMultiplier is allowed, however whatever it is that uses it must start with an initial angvel of 0.

ezpz - Yes, you can change density.
AverageCoder - Since that uses negative velocity damping I unfortunately can't count it, as negative velocity damping is essentially a source of energy. I'll add that to the rules.

y dont u ever set the camera to follow ur creations lol

What are the motion controls

u mean my engine?

ezpz, could you post the entry that got you that?

Very clever, but how did you get the car body to not rotate wihtout using InertiaMultiplier or scripts?

Wonder if it's possible to program it to do a full 360 scan around itself and travel to the nearest pellet, instead of the first one it sees?

I may make 2d rigs out of the creatures, and maybe make a game with some kind of story to it.

not only does this not look like arizona, it looks nothing like alaska as the other guy mentioned