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Howdie folks, I'm completly new here, found my way from a review on the Underdogs website (yes I filled in the poll). I have to admit that I'm not a biologist, or a programmer, or ever likely to understand all of the posts I have so far read, let alone those I have yet to get to.
However I have had some thoughts. It seems to me that there is anassumption that energy gained by vegies is equally distributed accross the field, and that the proximity of veggies to one another is irrelevnt to their ability to gain energy, and this seems illogical to me. While for simpilsity I can see the need for an ability to feed seemingly on nothing, would it not also make sense a vegie bot to gain less while it is in the thick of a crowd ? ie for a veggie to gain the maximum possible each cycle there would have to be no other vegies within a distance (whatever distance seems appropriate to the source of energy being modeled). Of course there maybe advantages to crowding, if you're alone and a predator arrives you're definatly the target.
I have had more thoughts as I've been reading, but I think I shall keep those to myself for the moment as I don't want to make too much of a fool out of myself in my first post.
Thanks for reading,
Math
However I have had some thoughts. It seems to me that there is anassumption that energy gained by vegies is equally distributed accross the field, and that the proximity of veggies to one another is irrelevnt to their ability to gain energy, and this seems illogical to me. While for simpilsity I can see the need for an ability to feed seemingly on nothing, would it not also make sense a vegie bot to gain less while it is in the thick of a crowd ? ie for a veggie to gain the maximum possible each cycle there would have to be no other vegies within a distance (whatever distance seems appropriate to the source of energy being modeled). Of course there maybe advantages to crowding, if you're alone and a predator arrives you're definatly the target.
I have had more thoughts as I've been reading, but I think I shall keep those to myself for the moment as I don't want to make too much of a fool out of myself in my first post.
Thanks for reading,
Math