Search For Powder Intelligence returns! by perogiepro

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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.

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  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.
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  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?
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  Windspren 30th Dec 2015
  Do you like my working gas bot?
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  msasterisk 30th Dec 2015
  Also, DLAY encoding seems like a good idea. I'll work on it.
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  msasterisk 30th Dec 2015
  Kevino, I already tried a wifi-less hivemind. The signals don't travel fast enough, the bot would run into itself and act more like a wave than a single creature. That is not good.
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  msasterisk 30th Dec 2015
  Hm, a lot has happened while I was off.
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  Windspren 30th Dec 2015
  Also, we should test each bot before letting it "reproduce" by subjecting it to an obstacle course where it needs to reach the PLNT. That way, the best genes will be passed on.
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  Windspren 30th Dec 2015
  Now, I'm going to find a way to make it work inside of a bot. Also, I had an idea that we could make a "hivemind" for multicellular bots without WIFI by making each cell as small as possible, linking each one with a "bridge" of MERC randomizers, and having one large cell with the gas randomizer inside, that powers the MERC randomizers. That way, the cells can move with the bot, but each still has random motion.
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  Windspren 30th Dec 2015
  I did it!!!!!! ID:1913931
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  Windspren 30th Dec 2015
  Also, it would be easy to make my gas randomizer work if it was housed outside of the bot, with WIFI connecting it to the bot. However, we would need to manually set the channels to have more than one bot on screen at a time, which kinda defeats the purpose. I'll make an example later today.