,The original "Locas Ants" was an Ant path algorithm simulation I made many years ago. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5wb4f5n6qQ&t=53s
Many people liked and wanted to understand and play with my awkward code made with Delphi 7. Recently I started a remake and selected Lua + Love2D as the best candidates trying to give a more accessible, cleaner and simpler code while adding some new cool features.
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The idea is to have an integral base to share with anyone who wants to study the real-time simulation of ants optimization algorithm (with some personal approaches toward more fun), or create their own simulation|game.
Watch the last screencap showing the implementation of "grass":
Quick notes about Love2D:
- The performance was something of my concern for this project and Love2D did better than many other similar API/Engines that work with Lua.
- Loved the easy to setup and iterate along with ZeroBrane Studio
- The API is simple and that gives you the whole power.
- Thank you for the well-maintained documentation.
- Love the love2d.org website design.
Hope you enjoy the little ants.
Run the .love: https://github.com/piXelicidio/locas-an ... 0.2.1.love
Github source: https://github.com/piXelicidio/locas-ants
Some useful keyboard shortcuts:
'2'- Toggle: Ants will check and obey
pheromones every frame. Result in less natural but prettier path.'4'- Switch on/off the algorithm. Ants will stop.
'5'- Toggle: Show pheromones traces.
'6'- Toggle: Disable object avoidance.
'0'- Toggle: Do not draw ants.
'm' - Prints used RAM on console.
PD: If the framerate run too slow reduce the # of ants in code\simconfig.lua > simconfig = { numAnts = 4500 ... } Also I'll be very grateful and happy to hear how many Ants you can handle at 30fps and your PC specs.
