Monday, May 12, 2003

Just seen this experiment on Flaver's website which has recently undergone a re-design by the way and is looking very nice! Anyway it's a kind of state machine that creates patterns by following a simple set of rules to turn squares black or white.

'Up to 500 generations it will construct symmetrical structures. From 500 until 10,000 generations it will generate structures that are more random in appearance. After 10,000 generations the ant begins to generate paths or bridges, which will repeat indefinately. If an obstacle is encountered during bridge generation, it will obviously throw the pattern off. However, once the ant has entered a bridge building mode it will always return to it, so the bridge generation will continue once it has cleared the obstruction.'

Jon 12:59 PM Permalink