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Posts Tagged ‘Artificial-Intelligence’

AI library for Processing

In Imported, Processing, Uncategorized on 16 June 2006 tagged Artificial-Intelligence, Processing, Programming with 1 comment

Over on the Processing.org forum, Aaron Steed is putting together some of the AI code he's written into a library, starting with examples of A* pathfinding, genetic algorithms and neural networks.

I did my own implementation of A* based on the same tutorial recently. I've put it online here since our coding styles are quite different and it might be useful to have an alternative example to work with.

Agents, Behaviour, Emergence and Embodiment

In Imported, Uncategorized, Weblog on 3 November 2004 tagged Agents, Artificial-Intelligence, Books, Embodiment, Emergence, Links, Notes, Simulation, Software, Talks, Teaching with 1 comment

Here are my online references from a lecture I gave today at UCL.

• Wikipedia on AI, includes a paragraph on "neats" and "scruffies".
• Desire-lines & Emergent paths: a light-hearted presentation of a predictive model / apparently it wasn't Berkeley, Irvine, or the Oregon Experiment who tried to use it... has anyone actually tried it?
• Craig Reynolds' boids / Steering Behaviours (the individual steering behaviour examples are essential viewing) / an HP labs tech report on not evolving collective behaviour for fish / well explained pseudocode for boids / my quick 2D processing implementation of the pseudocode (commented code and 3D version available on request).
• Pedestrian Simulation: Alasdair Turner's EVAS agents / my post on the MSc VE weblog about a pedestrian sim project in the Alps / Crowd Dynamics (the design is terrible, but click main menu and scroll down to the "Myriad" section).
• Brandeis's DEMO lab: The Golem Project / Evolutionary Design / Evolution of Buildable Objects (LEGO)
• Stigmergy: a good academic intro (pdf, HTML summary here) / Dan Ladley's termite constructions.
• Karl Sims: evolved creatures / the "blockies" MPEG / a retrospective.
• The books I mentioned, all very accessible: Valentino Braitenberg's Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology / Mitchel Resnick's Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams / Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software.
• The software/libraries I mentioned: steering behaviours work has spun off into a free open source library called Open Steer / Breve is a 3D environment for the simulation of decentralized systems and artificial life / Framsticks doesn't require programming knowledge / there is a demo of BEAST at David Gordon's homepage.

This will all be assimilated into my del.icio.us page shortly.