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Hyperspeed Mode
Houshalter:
I don't know, maybe if you turn all the bots into cells. That would deffininitly speed it up as well as break every bot ever made and ruing the whole point of a physics engine. It would be interesting to see the evolved behaviors and definatly worth it for a speed advangtage as high as you can get in conways game with hashlife. Why don't we just go and create a new alife sim simialar to db but in CA. That would be cool.
jknilinux:
What I meant was the bots would exist outside of the CA universe but could still influence or be influenced by the universe.
BTW if you want a cellular automata-like ALife program, check out Evolve 4.0
Houshalter:
I've done some experimenting with evolve, funny you should bring it up. The dna is to hard to understand but supposedly its more mutation friendly. The guy who made it ran it on an old computer for a year (actually i don't think it was a whole year but it was close.) There aren't alot of settings you can mess around with like with darwinbots so basicly its a watch and enjoy, but don't interfere, type sim. Anyways im curious how the bots would influence or be influenced by a CA universe. Do you mean there'd be some kind of overlapping universe that occasionly collides with db?
Numsgil:
--- Quote from: jknilinux ---Is it possible to use a cellular automata as a basis for DB physics? See here and here .
Digital physics seems to bear a close resemblance to cellular automata, and as such should be easy to use the hashlife algorithm on...
I have always wanted to find a way to combine DB with cellular automata...
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Yes, it's possible to simulate DB on a CA grid, and yes, it would probably make the physics (which is a significant CPU load) much faster. But I think Darwinbots' physically simulated environment is one of its strengths. CA don't quite inspire the imagination since they don't actually resemble anything real. With Darwinbots it's like you're looking through a microscope or at a fish tank.
Houshalter:
I heard/read somewhere that it was possible to convert a program (like DB) into a hardwired computer chip or something. I know theres sites out that let you order computer chips, they'll make it, you just have to design it. So can you get db hardwired. That would increase speed wouldn't it. My knowledge on electronics is kind of small though, but if you hardwired it you could set the stuff like max bot population to something really high and it should run just as fast. You could have all the bots' dna execute simultaniously. Im guessing the cost to do something like that would be kind of high. And if you discovered a bug youd have to live with it.
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