I only sort-of understand what's happening and I don't at all understand why it's so interesting. I regret clicking this link as I intended to head to bed.
I think after every race the winning design is the basis for a spawn of new mutations. If the floor is fixed, you'll get closer and closer to getting the best design for that floor. This is so cool. Also yea, it's 4:46, do I really need to be awake any longer? Now I have to. edit: I didn't realize you could scroll down the page and read about the controls and genome: - Shape: (8 genes, 1 per vertex) - Wheel size: (2 genes, 1 per wheel) - Wheel position: (2 genes, 1 per wheel) - Wheel density: (2 genes, 1 per wheel) darker wheels mean denser wheels Wheel density! That's wild.I regret clicking this link as I intended to head to bed.
The genome consists of:
I get that, but does the winning car get copied exactly, or does it also mutate? Do the cars that don't make it far get completely replaced? Also, Battleship was a stupid premise for a movie, but if that got made, do you think that adding a Tron -like element to this would increase its chances of becoming a movie?
What Tron-like element are you referring to? Because it's already a race of sorts. I don't know the exact formula, I'm about to leave browser open for an entire day and come back to report.