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Digging into the egrid
Zelos:
whit that way we can create enourmus nests whit mazes and other stuff
PurpleYouko:
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But you would only be able to display one level at a time on the screen so your bots would keep bumping into invisible objects on other levels :blink:
Zelos:
im sure the pc can handle different levels and keep them seperate, but yeah you wold only be able to see one, unless you add an option to split the screen so all levels get a part of it
Carlo:
Please, can somebody (best of all Nums, I think, since he's directly working on the project) give me a rapid (but possibly complete) description of the features of the environment grid you're going to implement? I don't exactly know where to look to find one.
Thanks
PurpleYouko:
E-grid overview.
The new e-grid is a multi (infinite actually) level array measuring 12 X 90
Most of the levels cover contain representations of concentrations of environmental stuff such as Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, temperature, waste products like ammonia, Nitrates and Nitrites. Calcium and Silicon for use in building shells.
We are also intending to make at least one level represent walls of some kind to which robots can tie or dig into.
Robots will be able to interact with the grid square which they currently occupy.
Some interactions will be automatic such as veggies using sunlight and CO2 to make energy, growth and Oxygen.
Others will require input from the robot to actively gather something or poop waste to the grid.
Beyond this we plan to have an active "enzyme" system in which robots can specialize in various different types of metabolism. While not strictly enzymes, these processes will still be controlled by a mutating bit pattern stored in the DNA file. Eventually this will completely blur the distinction between plants and animals since each can use multiple methods but with greater or lesser efficiency.
Energy will be able to be derived from such diverse things as the nitrogen cycle and Sulfer metabolism such as found near black smokers.
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