Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Project Re Proposal: genetic system

Walking into a display space a illuminated table-monitor lights up. The table is the only source
of light in the room. everything has a matte black surface. The screen starts moving. On it two swarms of red and blue lights swarm around , dancing through each other growing and blinking out.


My project uses netlogo to track the technological advancement of to rival militant factions.




It uses a multi agent flocking paradigm and predator prey relationship to force and evolutionary arms race weeding out weaker ship "designs" forcing them to become stronger and stronger.


(UPDATE) After receiving input from the class I have made shrunk the scenario some more. The relationship is now closer to a predator prey relationship. The blue side hunts the red side. The red side has shields the blue side has ramming strength. as either of these values goes up the speed of the ship goes down.  The ships get to a point where they find a semi stable balance between speed health and ramming strength. This replaces the massive arms race in the original system.

The point of the installation is to

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