The Powder Toy

Search For Powder Intelligence returns! by perogiepro

perogiepro
perogiepro
27 / 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

  • perogiepro
    perogiepro     30th Dec 2015
    Good find. Yes SFPI is a reference to SETI and pseudo-randomizer would be great, that way the bot will have certain directions favoured. Then if we can make it replicate the bot will carry the good genes on (the ones that make the bot run into plnt, for example) so bots pass knowledge down to offspring. Anyways the heat mediation would be great if it was triggered by say, finding plnt or reproducing (that would cause the bots to stick together as well.)
  • Karakanlud
    Karakanlud     30th Dec 2015
    (Also it has a heat mediation, so if a randomiser recieves more signals, it will more likely pass it to the next one)
  • Karakanlud
    Karakanlud     30th Dec 2015
    id:1855353 Take a look at this. These are merc+nble randomisers connected to each other. In these ones, signals tend to follow a pattern.
  • Karakanlud
    Karakanlud     30th Dec 2015
    Kevino36: Ooooh
  • Windspren
    Windspren     30th Dec 2015
    If we could find a way to make a randomizer using DLAY, we could encode the genome in the DLAY.
  • Windspren
    Windspren     30th Dec 2015
    We are looking for a randomizer that is not really random; that is, it makes a pattern if graphed. Ideally, this randomizer works with different elements that are similar, like a liquid randomizer that works with many different kinds of liquids. Karakanlud: I think it is called SFPI as a reference to SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
  • Windspren
    Windspren     30th Dec 2015
    msasterisk: Can you link a save with one?
  • Karakanlud
    Karakanlud     30th Dec 2015
    Maybe this project should be renamed to Search For Powder Life, as it actually focuses on single/multicellular creatures with basic instinctual reactions and evolution, rather than trying to simulate brain functions. :D There could be a separate project with that aim. Would you like to host that too, perogiepro?
  • msasterisk
    msasterisk     29th Dec 2015
    There's always gaussian distribution, although that might not suit our needs very well.
  • Windspren
    Windspren     29th Dec 2015
    Do any of you know about any biased randomizers? Like ones that aren't completely random, and follow a pattern?