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Suggestions / Better Graphs
« on: March 20, 2010, 02:13:39 PM »
First of all, hello, awesome program.
Secondly, I have an idea:
Instead of choosing how many cycles there should be between data points in the graphs, it would start filling the graph with a straight line that slowly got more detailed as more data points were made by the program, as the simulation continues. It could begin taking every data point (even though this is slow), after a short while it would take every two data points, then the distance between data points would increase over time, while the simulation deletes some of the old data points that were generated when the distance between them was smaller.
I hope you get what I was meaning.
There's also another thing to the graphs: Saving, so the graphs are saved with the simulation.
And at last, being able to let the program make the graphs without having to open the graph windows, and without them losing the data when they're closed.
All these ideas could ofc be options, while the old still remain options. I think the graphs are major parts of the "gameplay", at least I spend more time checking them while the sim is running than I do at checking out the screen with the bots. The graphs can quickly say so much about how the bots are evolving.
Secondly, I have an idea:
Instead of choosing how many cycles there should be between data points in the graphs, it would start filling the graph with a straight line that slowly got more detailed as more data points were made by the program, as the simulation continues. It could begin taking every data point (even though this is slow), after a short while it would take every two data points, then the distance between data points would increase over time, while the simulation deletes some of the old data points that were generated when the distance between them was smaller.
I hope you get what I was meaning.
There's also another thing to the graphs: Saving, so the graphs are saved with the simulation.
And at last, being able to let the program make the graphs without having to open the graph windows, and without them losing the data when they're closed.
All these ideas could ofc be options, while the old still remain options. I think the graphs are major parts of the "gameplay", at least I spend more time checking them while the sim is running than I do at checking out the screen with the bots. The graphs can quickly say so much about how the bots are evolving.