chriscow / Bug-World

An arena to simulate bugs using neural nets.

Bug-World

#PGBugWorld where pygame dependent code goes #contains draw code #toggle display of light, smell, sound

#----------------- START PYGAME SPECIFIC CODE ---------------------------------------

#world for simulations to happen #has boundaries #has objects

- determines which type

- determines where and when

- kills objects

- determines rules for affecting object attributes (health, mutating, mating)

#objects register for different types of collisions (physical, sound, smell, light(RGB)) #objects have hitboxes for each sensor.

#objects emit light at 1/r^2 three different colors #how do you keep senses from sensing itself #objects emit sound (varies on speed) #objects emit smell #objects have physical collision #objects have smell collision #objects have sound collision #eyes collide with objects and extracts RGB values from the target object .color tuple #eye collision also gives distance #bodies collide with other solid bodies

has the sample time which is the update loop time...used for velocity and accleration

#detects collisions

- different hitbox shapes. Hitbox needed for eyes so that collisions can be detected

in field of vision (use circles to start for everything. Could use cones for vision eventually)

- should return "distance" so can be used for intensity

- returns an intensity of collision (for eye interaction with light, sound, smell)

#contains rules of interactions #how do bugs die #have a score that indicates successfulness (distance travelled, area covered, energy amount (expended moving, gained eating) ) #how do bugs reproduce (should we use the "weakest 500" to avoid extinction events)

#need global counters so can do rates to keep populations stable. #timer #controls rates like food introduction, mating #creates extinction events

#Iterations/generations/epoch: #can be used to create extinction events in so many cycles

#Need a point system to keep track of goal reinforcement #points for distance travelled (would incent to move. otherwise would just sit still to max energy/health) #points for time alive #points for food eaten #could use energy and health

#Need an energy system #controls whether starves #consume energy based on speed #speed driven by amount of energy