Re:The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016)
by TeMPOraL on Friday September 17, 2021 @08:55AM
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Yup. Also nothing says the boids have to execute a single behavior all the time.
In a parallel comment, I described an idea where boids first start doing nothing except publishing a "depth" value that's a function of their neighbors "depth" value, waiting for the system to settle (as detected by neighboring values not changing by more than some fixed epsilon over some fixed Δt). They could then record their individual values and continue to a second algorithm (e.g. traditional "boids"), that uses this (now fixed) "depth" value as a parameter.
This is, in general, a pattern for individual unit to discover their role in the group, without ever knowing the whole group. I just realized this sounds like things the field of "distributed consensus" deals with - I'll add that to my research list.
I remember the voting games and "Twitch plays X" events. It's kind of a different situation (external controllers voting on control input to a single actor), but there might be some parallels.
In a parallel comment, I described an idea where boids first start doing nothing except publishing a "depth" value that's a function of their neighbors "depth" value, waiting for the system to settle (as detected by neighboring values not changing by more than some fixed epsilon over some fixed Δt). They could then record their individual values and continue to a second algorithm (e.g. traditional "boids"), that uses this (now fixed) "depth" value as a parameter.
This is, in general, a pattern for individual unit to discover their role in the group, without ever knowing the whole group. I just realized this sounds like things the field of "distributed consensus" deals with - I'll add that to my research list.
I remember the voting games and "Twitch plays X" events. It's kind of a different situation (external controllers voting on control input to a single actor), but there might be some parallels.