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Artificial Life 3 - remote sensing

PostPosted: Sun Mar 27, 2016 9:20 pm
by Ravenplucker
This one uses remote sensing with an internal compass to track down and "eat" food particles. It has a much greater detection range than my previous bots, which used antenae.

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Here's a pick of the search pattern I got. The red circles are the food points, green cross is the starting point.
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Due to the distances, increase your sim speed if you can.

Re: Artificial Life 3 - remote sensing

PostPosted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 9:56 pm
by Asolpdrag
Wait whaaaaaaat!!??
Man this is incredible, I just discovered your artificial life series and their are awesome.
I used to play with phun when I was a kid. How did you do the remote sensing thing? I don't know how to use algodoo to well (it has changed a lot) and I cannot even try to grsp whats going on in your creation.
I just can't stop playing the scene one time after another.
Very good job!! Keep going :)

Re: Artificial Life 3 - remote sensing

PostPosted: Sun Apr 10, 2016 9:17 am
by Ravenplucker
Asolpdrag wrote:Wait whaaaaaaat!!??
Man this is incredible, I just discovered your artificial life series and their are awesome.
I used to play with phun when I was a kid. How did you do the remote sensing thing? I don't know how to use algodoo to well (it has changed a lot) and I cannot even try to grsp whats going on in your creation.
I just can't stop playing the scene one time after another.
Very good job!! Keep going


Cheers man, I appreciate it.
The remote sensing is done by the material property of attraction. The central compass basically points towards concentrations of mass in the J collision group, and the bot powers towards it. Since the bot on moves in short bursts and the compass reorients every time, it eventually homes in.

Re: Artificial Life 3 - remote sensing

PostPosted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 6:51 pm
by pnvv
Is the path it takes entirely random or does it have some type of mechanical AI?

Re: Artificial Life 3 - remote sensing

PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:45 am
by Ravenplucker
If it was random it would never get to any food ;) , but it's not AI either. It's just a set of sequenced actions.

On an unrelated note, with a few modifications it turns into a predator. Here's a crappy vid showing it hunting down one of my other bots.