Darwinbots Forum
General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Botsareus on February 23, 2005, 02:45:26 PM
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<--- look here on this picture I always post with
Its a screen shot from a physics development faze of pusher bots
Now wth does that have to do with "vtimer"?
Well in my programs all kinds of loops are allowed (I call them "repeats")
But what happens if there is an Infinite loop?
AAA! well thats were my own timer tricks come in:
* The simulator executes each robots dna one by one in several bits
* The "bit" is equal to the length of the dna of the fastest robot
* So if a robot is three times as slow as the fastest robot , the simulator will cut its prossesing into 3 bits , so the fastest robot "thinked" 3 times while this slow robot only "thinked" once
* Forget about thouse robots with infinate loops they will be killed [you]before[/you] by faster robots
* [you]Before[/you] means before the "HI VB RAN OUT OF STACK SPACE" error
right now I am stuck on the code of turning equations with parentheses' into type arrays so the vb can compile
an example of an equation like that will be :
repeat if (a < r) and (c > (d * (e - f)))
good luck with that for me :D
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A few questions:
Its a screen shot from a fisix development faze of pusher bots
What is 'a fisix development faze of pusher bots'? What is pusher bots?
right now I am stuck on the code of turning equations with Prentices into type arrays so the vb can compile
You mean 'equations with parentheses'? That's why DB uses polish notation (atleast, I think that's part of the reason). No need to worry about parentheses.
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Pusher bots is a program I am working on , I only brought it up because of "vtimer" from Nums making virus thing
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Ah, see, you have to preference your posts with these kinds of things. ;) Otherwise we are left :blink:
Have you checked out different AL programs? Avida is supposed to be the proffessional benchmark. I haven't played too much with it (it isn't graphically based, and I'm lazy that way :P).
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The only other AL simulation I found that was worth downloading (I thought) was some kind of msdos boxes moving arround witch cheesy system speacker beepys, yep I think it was avida the first thing that came up on google was that cheesy msdos looking prog.
from there on I stoped bothering;
I think DB is the best currently in the world
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DB certainly has my vote.
If only the scientific community agreed with us. Maybe someday. :ph43r:
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Mine too. B)
DB's been noticed by tons of educators, freegame sites, evolutionists, and coders already. Seems the actual scientists are the ones missing out.
Endy ;)
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The AL scientists anyway. I think quite a fwe people here could be called scientists.
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True. Sorry, forgot about what you do for a living. :rolleyes:
Endy ;)
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I don't think I could be called a scientist, but I think schvarz could. And PY, you could be considered a scientist too, right?
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And PY, you could be considered a scientist too, right?
If by Scientist you mean someone who has technical qualifications, conducts research and publishs scientific papers then yes.
My Job title has recently changed so I am now officially a Research Chemist
I have a bunch of published papers on Laser Ablation analysis of all kinds of stuff. I collaborate with other chemists and proffessors all over the world in research projects.
I guess that qualifies me as a scientist. Funny thing is though that I never really think of myself that way.
Weird init?
:unsure: PY :unsure:
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If that doesn't qualify you as a scientist I don't know what would.
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ok I took parentheses out also , thought its too mutch pain figuring out how to shove it arround in memory, also adding multi-level-cloneing of equations so they... basicaly mutations will be a pain with parentheses too :burnup:
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That's why DB uses reverse polish notation I bet.
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Here attached is a text document that explains the friction "drag" method of pusher bots.
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Is that all you have so far? Can you post your whole VB project either here or somewhere else? Is it playable yet?
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o yea , I forgot num is a visual learner... I cant post the exe , its too big... Ok fine ill give you my project files , brb
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I demand pictures and other, actual things! Like code! Or an executable! Mwahahahaha.
Make your sacrifices to the bot knight! :pray:
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Got to love my free give aways, Num might as well finish the project for me:
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That seems to be what Carlo did. :D
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Only after we pestered him for ages though.
:D PY :D
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Hey bots, not bad, but I'm having trouble figuring out the vs.
Could you write up a quick walkthrough for pusherbots?
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Power Archiver won't open it. Don't know about Winzip. I don't have that installed on this PC.
:( PY :(
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Poor PY. UP a creek without an unzipper.
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Em num the actual DNA does not work yet. The robots move because of a fake dna code. All vs. mode does is show how mutch deaths you or the bot[you]s[/you] have. The botssssss part is what confusing right? It devides the number by the avrage to get one bot.
So vs. compares you to one bot , not many bots. You win if you have less deaths then the bot.
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I'm confused about what you're actually supposed to do in vs. How do you die? How do you not die?
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you can pause by pressing the pause\break key on your keyboard.
To figure out some of the Dna there is a sample robot txt file. Try turning "autoformat" on and backclick in the Dnaeditor. Press ESC to get into the editor.
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You die when you get shot enough times, simple.
Use Ctrl and SpaceBar to Sraff!
O yea :) , use Numpad to move and turn
EDIT: ONE MORE LATE "O YEA" : you also "die" when you go beiond them edges of the screen /Edit:Tuesday, May 10 , 2005
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Num did you get it now?
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Yeah, played around with it for a while.
Fun fun.
Haven't gotten into the source code yet.
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Here is an example what happens to reasonable code that just sits on the internet. Attachment missing since the last forum transfer. Spike what do you think? :P
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Save face? What face? Just look where Eric ended up in the status 10 years from now. Just look what is going to happen with the entire industry 50 give or take 20 (because I just introduced a random variable)