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Bot Tavern / Kelp-like alga?

« on: December 17, 2007, 10:33:23 PM »

I'm going to have to work more on this tomorrow, but here's what I've got so far:

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' Alga Treedepthicus
'
' Vegetable
'
'Kelp that maintains depth and creates other strands of kelp

'Allocate Address 50 as the identifier for cell type
def type 50

'type = 1 : head
'type = 2 : tail

'Gene 1 - Make head if out is head

cond
*.in1 1 =
*.type 0 =
start
1 .type store
stop

'Gene 2 - Assign Type

cond
*.type 1 <
start
2 rnd .type store
stop

'Gene 3 - Delete assignment for tail cells

cond
*.type 2 =
start
1 .delgene store
stop

'Gene 4 - Assign Tail offspring

cond
*.type 1 <
start
2 .type store
stop

'Gene 5 - make ties

start
*.eye5 0 >
*.robage 1 =
*.numties type <=
*.type 1 !=
and
.tie inc
stop

'==================HEAD==================
'-------DEPTH MAINTENANCE--------
'Gene 6- Maintain Downward aim

cond
 *.aim 942 !=
 *.type 1 =
start
 942 .setaim store
stop

'Gene 7 - Lower Depth
 
cond
 *.depth 5000 >
 *.type 1 =
start
 10 .dn store
stop

'Gene 8 - Upper Depth

cond
 *.depth 3500 <
 *.type 1 =
start
 0 .dn store
stop

'-------REPRODUCTION-----

'Gene 9 - Make other head

cond
 *.nrg 20000 >=
 *.type 1 =
 *.numties 1 =
start
  50 .repro store
  1 .out1 store
stop

'Gene 10 - Make tail

cond
 *.nrg 10000 >=
 *.type 1 =
 *.numties 0 =
start
  50 .repro store
stop

'==================TAIL=============
'Gene 11 - Share Energy
cond
 *.nrg 5000 >
 *.type 2 =
start
 50 .sharenrg store
stop
'Gene 12 - Make more tail
cond
 *.nrg 10000 >=
 *.type 2 =
 *.numties 2 <
start
  50 .repro store
  15 .aimdx store
stop

'============MAINTAIN SIZE===========

'Gene 13 - Make less body

cond
 *.body 10000 >=
 *.nrg 1000 < or
start
 100 .fdbody store
stop

'Gene 14 - More Body

cond
 *.body 1000 <=
 *.nrg 4000 >=
start
 100 .strbody store
I can't get the waste disposal gene to work right, I'm not sure what I did to screw it up, but this basically does what I wanted, the head floats at the right level and creates more heads and a tail, which continues to grow.  I've got to get the energy sharing down better, but that's ok.  I'm going to run it overnight and make sure it doesn't explode.

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Bot Tavern / Kelp-like alga?

« on: December 17, 2007, 09:31:54 PM »

Thanks a lot.

Here's what I've got so far:

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'Kelp that maintains depth and creates other strands of kelp

'Address 50 is cell type
def type 50

'type = 1 : head
'type = 2 : tail

start
*.eye5 0 >
*.robage 1 =
*.numties type <=
and
.tie inc
stop

'head

'depth maintenance

cond
 *.aim 314 !=
 *.type 1 =
start
 314 .setaim store
stop
 
cond
 *.depth 5000 >
 *.type 1 =
start
 2 .up store
stop

cond
 *.depth 3500 <
 *.type 1 =
start
 0 .up store
stop

cond
 *.nrg 5000 >=
 *.type 1 =
 *.numties = 1
start
  50 .repro store
stop

cond
 *.nrg 1000 >=
 *.type 1 =
 *.numties != 1
start
  50 .repro store
stop

'tail

cond
 *.nrg 500 >
 *.type 2 =
start
 50 .sharenrg store
stop

cond
 *.nrg 1000 >=
 *.type 2 =
start
  50 .repro store
  15 .aimdx store
stop

'body management

cond
 *.body 10000 >=
 *.nrg 1000 < or
start
 100 .fdbody store
stop

cond
 *.body 1000 <=
 *.nrg 4000 >=
start
 100 .strbody store

cond
 *.nrg

cond
 *.waste 50 >
start
 -4 .shoot store
 .waste 50 dec
stop
end
Now, I'm not sure how I tell a new cell which type it is, I know that I make the "tail" cells create more tail cells, and the head create a tail and then more heads, but beyond that I'm basically lost as to how to do the rest

further ideas?

thanks

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Bot Tavern / Kelp-like alga?

« on: December 17, 2007, 08:22:43 PM »

Well, after messing around with two different alga (both based on alga_minimus and probably some others for little tidbits of code), I was wondering how I would make a plant whose top cell floats and then has cells tied to it who simply dangle below (the sim would be with gravity of some nature).  Ideally, the top cell would be able to create both cells below it and other plants, while the lower cells would simply collect energy.

here's what I've come up with for maintaining a certain depth, I'm not sure if this is the best way, but it certainly creates a solid layer of floating alga when these genes are added to alga_minimus

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cond
 *.aim 314 !=
start
 314 .setaim store
stop
 
cond
 *.depth 5000 >
start
 2 .up store
stop

cond
 *.depth 3500 <
start
 0 .up store
stop
So, any ideas for how I would create the different identities for the two types of cells, and how I could just generally go further with this one?

Thanks

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Newbie / Hey / Noob-ish question

« on: December 17, 2007, 08:14:58 PM »

Thanks.

I realized that the forums are active right after I posted that and felt a little bad about it, sorry.

I will do that, thanks

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Newbie / Hey / Noob-ish question

« on: December 17, 2007, 06:24:28 PM »

Hey guys

I've been messing with DarwinBots for about a week now, and have a question about two possible alga and how I would go about making them:

the first is thus:
I've created a simple multibot, but I've noticed that the little "herbivore" I've made manages to utterly destroy it every single time, so I was wondering if there was some way that I could make it grow to be  certain number of bots in size (say, 10) and then all further offspring would be "shot" off in random directions, so that the species would have a better chance of survival.

Any ideas about how to do this?  Or where I would find how to do this?

my second idea:
After messing with gravity, I created an alga that maintains a depth of 5000 and I've discovered that it survives a lot better than minimus or my multibot alga, and Now I was wondering if I could combine the two, because it seems that a multibot is supposed to be better, but my little guy keeps winning.  my idea was thus:
have a multibot where the first cell "floats" at whatever depth I choose and then the offspring dangle below it.  Unfortunately I don't know how to only make the first bot float.  Also, it seems that I should have the top bot start creating other strands of itself after creating the first attached bot, allowing the attached one to continue to grow down.


I don't know how hard these would be to do, and I'm not even sure if anyone checks these forums anymore... but, I figured that it's no harm in asking and it could seriously help.

Thanks