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Newbie / Bot Spatial Ecology in DB
« on: January 25, 2009, 09:10:10 AM »
Hey guys, thanks for getting back to me so quickly, and for your kind support. So I'm afraid I don't have a programming background, so how about one of these possible options:
1) Screen captures every few cycles as a sort of sampling strategy, then analyse the set of jpegs with an image analysis program / GIS such as used in remote sensing projects for looking at changes in vegetation index over time. As long as the bot colours were quite distincitive and seperate, each would have a different spectral signal and could be analysed over time with something like fourier analysis, as used in monitoring changes in forest strucuture with satellite pictures from Landsat and MODIS. However this would take quite a while, and seems the long way round.
2) Would it be possible to develop a C++ plugin for an earlier version of Darwinbot that is prior to the scripts and codes the other guy who just left put in? Would be a shame to lose all those other advanced features though.
3) Develop a C++ package that reads the pixel or bot positions on screen every cycle and compiles it into a coordinate x and y list in excel or some sort of a code / C++ way of short cutting point 1).
In the end I know it seems horrible to turn the cool and beautiful graphics output into a dull table of numbers and graphs, but it would be such a cool experiement and powerful tool to explore evolution and ecology mathmatically / statistically.
Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!!!
CC
1) Screen captures every few cycles as a sort of sampling strategy, then analyse the set of jpegs with an image analysis program / GIS such as used in remote sensing projects for looking at changes in vegetation index over time. As long as the bot colours were quite distincitive and seperate, each would have a different spectral signal and could be analysed over time with something like fourier analysis, as used in monitoring changes in forest strucuture with satellite pictures from Landsat and MODIS. However this would take quite a while, and seems the long way round.
2) Would it be possible to develop a C++ plugin for an earlier version of Darwinbot that is prior to the scripts and codes the other guy who just left put in? Would be a shame to lose all those other advanced features though.
3) Develop a C++ package that reads the pixel or bot positions on screen every cycle and compiles it into a coordinate x and y list in excel or some sort of a code / C++ way of short cutting point 1).
In the end I know it seems horrible to turn the cool and beautiful graphics output into a dull table of numbers and graphs, but it would be such a cool experiement and powerful tool to explore evolution and ecology mathmatically / statistically.
Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers!!!
CC