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Newbie / Strange thing happens...

« on: March 30, 2005, 12:41:47 AM »

Just for the hell of it, I decided to run a simulation with a bunch of bots, but checked them all off as autotrophes.  Within a few cycles (~60) the simulation stops with the error message, "Robots are all dead, simulation stopped".  The funny thing being, that none of them had died in only the first second of simulation.

So can you not have a simulation entirely of autotrophes? :(

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Newbie / Introducing the God of Lemurs!!

« on: March 28, 2005, 03:17:13 PM »

Kind of a fractal thing then, right?  What are you involved in?  I'm a senior math major at school, so I sort of know where you're coming from.

Yessir, fractals are freaky-cool.

I'm actually a Biologist by edumacation.  It is only fairly recently that I have gotten into Complex Systems.  Up to now, I have always avoided math like I avoid amoebic dysentery.

Welcome thelemurgod!

Hmm, what would be you nickname?  Thelem?  Lemur?

People often call me "LG". :)

I think I can just barely wrap my mind around that.

The complex system would be DB and the "agents" would be the bots in the system. I'm guessing the rest is about the fractal nature of the universe(s) and how living organisms increase chaos around them to increase order within  themselves.

Something like that. Complexity theory is a robust subject and something I am fairly new to myself (at least in terms of specific concepts).

welcome
ive played simearth, got boring after a wiöe for me

The SIM games are not everyone's cup of tea.  I remembe rhte first time I rented SIMEarth for SNES...  I played that for hours and hours... everyone around me thought I was insane when my first trichordate sprang to life. :)

  Welcome aboard dude! (I love the way you speak english... it's quite different from the farmer's english some people here speak  )

Why thanky-you.

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Newbie / Introducing the God of Lemurs!!

« on: March 27, 2005, 10:46:27 PM »

If you'd like help making a viable bot, check PY's tutorials

Ooooh, thank you.  I shall.  I have some pretty big bot-building aspirations.  But goal #1 is to get one to actually live.  (So far I've just been messing around with existing bots).

what, may I ask, is a "multi-agent complex system simulations"

Well, a complex system is a mathmatical term for a system that invovlves a number of elements arranged in such a way that on any scale observed, their is similiar arrangement.  It  includes ideas from choas theory and some of the more common applications are in the study of evolution and neural networking.  An agent, is any entity involved in the system, that is itself, a complex system.  And I've been doing research into finding groovy software to create simulations for various complex systems, so that said systems can be analyzed.

While meandering through some science software listing (On google directories, I think), I saw a link to DarwinBots and I screamed, "JOY!"

And here I am! :D

If I could combine DB and SimEarth, I would officially be in Heaven.

DARE I DREAM!!  :lol:

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Off Topic / Music

« on: March 27, 2005, 10:26:41 PM »

Cool!

And I would be honored to have it included. *bows*

I will mess around with some stuff, and post the updates as I develop the piece.

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Newbie / Introducing the God of Lemurs!!

« on: March 27, 2005, 10:19:50 PM »

G'day.

I happened upon Darwinbots while searching out info on multi-agent complex system simulations.  I just started messing around with it, but am having quite a good time.  I have yet to create a viable bot, and have no idea what the hell I'm doing.

I used to have ant farms as a kid, and would sit and watch for hours.  When computers came my way, I go into simulations.  At some point in my life I have owned just about every SIM game there has ever been.  I still play SIMAnt and SIMLife on occasion.

You all deserve cookies.

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Off Topic / Music

« on: March 27, 2005, 10:12:54 PM »

ALLO!

I present to you a possible music track.  I sometimes think of myself as an industrial musician, so I am always messing around with synths and stuff.  I threw this track together in a few minutes.  My inspirations for this piece were SimEarth(SNES) and Metroid(NES).

It is not a complete track.  I have three different segments, each with increasing accompaniment.   If it is pleasing to your ears then you can use just a single segment (played in loop by the program to save on file size).  Or, I can arrange 2 or all 3 in a complete piece. Or, if you have anything particular in mind, I could sit down and create something entirely different.

the file is here:
http://www.lemurcult.org/lemur-dbtest001.mp3

I also fancy myself a caroonist, so if graphic work is ever required, I'd be more then willing to lend a pencil to help.

I will now officially introduce myself elsewhere and beg for DNA help.