What the Internet has in common with an ant colony

Re:What the Internet has in common with an ant colony by DanAndersen on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @07:52PM (#8994650)

Ant colony systems are really interesting! It's fascinating how distributed creatures can communicate and, with a simple set of rules, converge on a good solution.

Last year I did a GPU programming project involving an ant-colony-like simulation. Based on the idea that ants have immediate knowledge only of their neighborhood, it's a simulation that works well with GPU fragment-shader-based parallelization:

http://www.dan.andersen.name/gpu-accelerated-3d-ant-colony-s...

https://github.com/DanAndersen/gpu-ant-sim

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Re:What the Internet has in common with an ant colony by LiweiZ on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @09:56PM (#8995078)

You may be interested in complex system and complex adaptive system as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_adaptive_system

I think they are the source perspective of many ideas. And many popular books are actually derived from them.

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