Devlog
2024
Cereal Demands Smart Pointers
Wherein the achievements of the most impressive boids can be recorded in JSON for posterity.
Braitenberg Vehicles
Wherein boids realize they may need to compete with other types of agents in what they thought was their simulated paradise.
Semicolon After Class Definition
Wherein boids are observed to perform a strange dance worthy of narration by Sir David Attenborough.
Evolution Log
Wherein the protagonist finds more ways to see just how poorly his populations of boids are performing.
References Instead of Pointers
Wherein the protagonist desires to purge his code of unnecessary pointers.
Fast Forward
Wherein the performance of the boids is so unsatisfactory to the protagonist that he wishes to skip past most of their lives.
Press 'M' to Mutate, Select, and Repopulate
Wherein several generations of natural selection yields boids that still mostly go in circles but occasionally steer toward food.
Command-Line Implementation
Wherein the protagonist is surprised by a strange comparison result in C++, as if he’s never seen that before in Javascript.
Start Simple with the Neural Net
Wherein the boids are given brains, albeit very very small ones.
Screenshots using FileNamer
Wherein the boids give us a sense of their direction.