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rsucoop:
I'm sure this is already in use, but I've not seen it occur in DB. What if velocity changes effected all other bots; I.e. a direction away from a bot with a lot of velocity will push the water behind the moving bot, thus affecting another bot. Essentially something like Thai Chi would be born, a bot could fix to a spot and just use velocity vectors to push opponents away from them. What does everyone think about that?

Numsgil:
It's computationally expensive, basically.  If you're in to that sort of thing, check out plasma pong (I think you can google it).  Maintaining and updating velocity vectors in a huge vector field is really cool, but it would simply bring the program to a crawl.

rsucoop:

--- Quote from: Numsgil ---It's computationally expensive, basically.  If you're in to that sort of thing, check out plasma pong (I think you can google it).  Maintaining and updating velocity vectors in a huge vector field is really cool, but it would simply bring the program to a crawl.
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What if it were very ineficient and inacurate? Just a velocity change to a very limited field of effect. Say 10 away on the eye return, and only with 1 degree of area. THis would mean a jet could be used. The physics for emulation shouldn't be too difficult, since only a small area of vectors would need to be created; we can also assume that the jet affect carries no true inertia, so it would stop once a bot turned.

Numsgil:

--- Quote from: rsucoop ---
--- Quote from: Numsgil ---It's computationally expensive, basically.  If you're in to that sort of thing, check out plasma pong (I think you can google it).  Maintaining and updating velocity vectors in a huge vector field is really cool, but it would simply bring the program to a crawl.
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What if it were very ineficient and inacurate?

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I haven't worked it before, so I'm going on heaer say.  If the user is running some multicore computer, it might be easier.  This sort of thing is pretty easy to parallelize.


--- Quote ---Say 10 away on the eye return, and only with 1 degree of area. THis would mean a jet could be used. The physics for emulation shouldn't be too difficult, since only a small area of vectors would need to be created; we can also assume that the jet affect carries no true inertia, so it would stop once a bot turned.
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I don't understand exactly what you mean here.  Are you suggesting that we just have lines of force from a bot's motion, ignoring issues of turblence, etc.?  It might work.  It would simplify things, certainly.  If we simulated a sort of elongated triangle off each side of a moving bot, representing its wake,  and an elongated path where the bot has just been, representing the dead zone inside the wakes, and slowly expanded the shapes to represent wave propogation, it might work.

So I dunno, maybe.

EricL:
It would be easier (and more effecieint) to give shots mass.  Bots could then use shots for propulsion.  Combine this with control over shot velocity and you have a reaction drive...

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