The Powder Toy

Search For Powder Intelligence returns! by perogiepro

perogiepro
perogiepro
26 / 7
22nd Dec 2015
10th Jan 2016
We are back, refurbished and with new ideas. Read all of our old discussion on the forum under a topic called Evolution in a video game! Anyways the main plan is to create small bots that eat to survive, reproduce, and then change (genes). Check list.
sfpi intelligence evolution electronics test group science life workinprogress

Comments

  • msasterisk
    msasterisk     31st Dec 2015
    Oohhh, nice idea! If we can get Schmolen's awesome neural net inside a bot, awesomeness would happen!
  • Karakanlud
    Karakanlud     31st Dec 2015
    I'm experimenting with a pseudobrain right now. Instead of randomisers, it has heat mediated cells (like the ones in Schmolen's saves). It would operate with an adjustable AI relaxed signal (maybe it would be connected some way to sensors to make it "change its mind". Also planning to add a sensory imput, with a small short-term memory unit, which would make it remember the things detected in the last 10-15 seconds.
  • 12Me21
    12Me21     31st Dec 2015
    Is anyone going to make a SFPI group? (and maybe a group account, which is legal as long as it isn't used to vote on anything).
  • msasterisk
    msasterisk     30th Dec 2015
    I've got it! GEL! A lower tmp makes it stick to the sides of the tube it's in, while a high tmp makes it act more and more like WATR. At tmp 100, it is basically a MERC randomizer, but with no SPRK freezing. Running it through Sandwichlizard's lab, I found that the randomness is pretty much proportional to tmp.
  • 12Me21
    12Me21     30th Dec 2015
    Maybe an objective should be "Make bots that disapear when they die". it could use bombs or something.
  • msasterisk
    msasterisk     30th Dec 2015
    Hmm, okay, interesting idea. As for your gas-randomizer robot, I remember seeing a similar design somewhere else. Maybe it was actually yours, lol.
  • Windspren
    Windspren     30th Dec 2015
    Also, what do you mean by "not a new concept"?
  • Windspren
    Windspren     30th Dec 2015
    You know how you can heat/cool DLAY and it will control how fast SPRK travels? If you take a long DLAY wire, with certain parts of it cooled/heated, and then send SPRK into it repeatedly, the pattern that comes out at the end could be put into a MERC randomizer, making it move differently. I think there's a tutorial on using DLAY on the TPT wiki.
  • msasterisk
    msasterisk     30th Dec 2015
    Kevino: It's not an entirely new concept, but yes, it's good. GAS breaks the randomizer. Also, what is DLAY encoding?
  • Windspren
    Windspren     30th Dec 2015
    Do you like my working gas bot?