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Off Topic / Pixels! official website launched

« on: December 04, 2011, 11:39:19 AM »

Okies, so I know my visits here are sporadic and only once every few months but I just started a new website you guys might want to check out, it's a forum roleplaying thing but yeah, just trying to build up an initial userbase, officially launched it about 20 minutes ago you see, still a bit bare though

http://www.pixelsgame.org

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Bot Challenges / Hard bot

« on: May 15, 2011, 01:44:11 PM »

Taking up the recent trend created by PhiNotPi I decided to create my own challenge, can you create a bot which uses only a single inc and a single dec? Whilst still remaining as efficient as possible? The shortest bot that can meet the criteria below wins 

• Increase total energy of species over a time-frame of 50,000 cycles.

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The Gene depository / Oculus III

« on: May 14, 2011, 11:57:13 AM »

-4 *.eye1 *.eye9 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye1 *.eye8 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye1 *.eye7 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye1 *.eye6 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye1 *.eye5 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye1 *.eye4 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye1 *.eye3 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye1 *.eye2 sub sgn 0 floor mult 4 *.eye9 *.eye8 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye9 *.eye7 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye9 *.eye6 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye9 *.eye5 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye9 *.eye4 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye9 *.eye3 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye9 *.eye2 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye9 *.eye1 sub sgn ++ sgn mult add -3 *.eye2 *.eye9 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye2 *.eye8 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye2 *.eye7 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye2 *.eye6 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye2 *.eye5 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye2 *.eye4 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye2 *.eye3 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye2 *.eye1 sub sgn ++ sgn mult add 3 *.eye8 *.eye9 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye8 *.eye7 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye8 *.eye6 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye8 *.eye5 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye8 *.eye4 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye8 *.eye3 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye8 *.eye2 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye8 *.eye1 sub sgn ++ sgn mult add -2 *.eye3 *.eye9 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye3 *.eye8 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye3 *.eye7 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye3 *.eye6 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye3 *.eye5 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye3 *.eye4 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye3 *.eye2 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye3 *.eye1 sub sgn ++ sgn mult add 2 *.eye7 *.eye9 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye7 *.eye8 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye7 *.eye7 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye7 *.eye6 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye7 *.eye5 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye7 *.eye4 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye7 *.eye2 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye7 *.eye1 sub sgn ++ sgn mult add -1 *.eye4 *.eye9 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye4 *.eye8 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye4 *.eye7 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye4 *.eye6 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye4 *.eye5 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye4 *.eye3 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye4 *.eye2 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye4 *.eye1 sub sgn ++ sgn mult add 1 *.eye6 *.eye9 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye6 *.eye8 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye6 *.eye7 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye6 *.eye6 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye6 *.eye5 sub sgn 0 floor mult *.eye6 *.eye3 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye6 *.eye2 sub sgn ++ sgn mult *.eye6 *.eye1 sub sgn ++ sgn mult add 4 add *.focuseye 4 add sub dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult inc -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult inc -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult inc -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult inc -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult inc -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult inc -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult inc -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult inc -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult inc -- 9 add - dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult dec -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult dec -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult dec -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult dec -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult dec -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult dec -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult dec -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult dec -- dup sgn -- sgn ++ .focuseye mult dec --

Well here we go, dependent on the environment this Ocular is 3 too 500 times as efficient as Oculus II with almost the exact same functionality:

• This eye uses 634 bp as compared too 523 bp in the original so a slight increase in bulk size.
  
• Occulus II has a rather large flaw in that .eye4 is accounted for twice and .eye6 not at all, assuming this was a programming error I fixed the issue
  
• .eye5 does not need any accounting for because it's .focuseye value is 0 so this excess DNA was removed
  
• Occulus II uses a store every single cycle even if the value of .focuseye does not change thus wasting energy, by comparison Oculus III only Stores when the value of .focuseye changes by storing into memory location 0 when no change in .focuseye is needed which costs 0 energy
  
• Inc and Dec use 10 times as less energy as Store and the most .eyefocus needs to change by in a single cycle is 9 though mostly it only needs changing by 1 whilst tracking an enity, through using Inc and Dec energy is saved
  

When run in simulations where I had 0 costs other than store's which required 10 energy, 3000 starting energy for all and veggie's storing 30 into .up every cycle Oculus II would always die out at 300 cycles however the last Oculus III survived often until 8,000 - 14,000 cycles - quite a good increase in effciency I think, hope you like it 

Oh and I forgot to say I've just returned to darwinbots after almost a years exile - this is my 1st project since and I'm hoping for more to come from me and everyone else as I attempt to relearn the DNA of darwinbots