Genetic Algorithms
January 30th, 2011 at 1:18:50 PM
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If you want a reasonable demo of how Genetic Algorithms can be used :
http://boxcar2d.com/
There's some issue with the demo that people who know more about GA's than I do have, but it's interesting none the less seeing a random mish-mash of polygons and wheels slowly develop into a car/tank type shape for crawling along a bumpy road.
http://boxcar2d.com/
There's some issue with the demo that people who know more about GA's than I do have, but it's interesting none the less seeing a random mish-mash of polygons and wheels slowly develop into a car/tank type shape for crawling along a bumpy road.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
January 30th, 2011 at 1:55:35 PM
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Wow, that brings back memories. I took a graphics class from Joe Marks over 15 years ago where he showed a GA for implementing a stick-figure (mass-spring model with 5 masses connected to a central 6th mass) learning to walk. The winner figured out how to cartwheel and drastically beat the rest.
Here's a related paper:
http://metahack.org/Fukunaga-Ngo-Marks-EP-1994.pdf
Here's a related paper:
http://metahack.org/Fukunaga-Ngo-Marks-EP-1994.pdf
"In my own case, when it seemed to me after a long illness that death was close at hand, I found no little solace in playing constantly at dice."
-- Girolamo Cardano, 1563
