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create cube in f1

Submitted by crz on Wed, 2004-03-24 15:42

hi, i've been struggeling to create a simple cube using f1. It seems to be
inpossible to create a cornerpoint with all 3 axis (x,y,z) represented. Is
there an alternative, cause don't want to use f0

thx

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export scene to pov-ray

Submitted by crz on Wed, 2004-03-17 12:28

if I want to make an animation for povray, am i right that that only works
when idividual scenes are rendered from framsticks. So if I want an
animation of 40 sec, that results in 1000 frames so framsticks then will
export 1000 individual *.pov files. Hope i'm wrong on this one cause this
realy leads to diffuculties in povray for me. Is there no way to "include"
or "merge" all these scens into one animated pov file.

this is what I read on the framsticks website:" Then, an exported scene file
is created in each simulation step (but observing the skip frames
parameter). Every scene file #includes "world.inc". ". And trying it out
myself looking for an solutions was unsuccesful, so any advice would be much
appraciated

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record worm length?

Submitted by adam chamness on Mon, 2004-03-15 07:06

i left my framsticks running for 2 hours and upon returning I was amazed
to see that only 7 million steps had passed. It was in F9 mode, so I
didn't understand this at first. Switching back to F4 mode made it
abundantly clear, when I saw the massive size of the frams that had
evolved. I was running a speed/distance experiment from a single
bacteria. I'd never experienced the worm-growing problem before, but
here it was right in front of me and larger than i ever expected.

in a gene pool of 200 (with no copies allowed) the average number of
body parts was somewhere close to 3000, with the largest being 3654.
These worms scarcely moved (velocity of 0.001), but scored distances of
300+. These guys also had large sized brains, averaging 50 neurons with
about 20 connections. So simulating even a single fram in F9 mode caused
the program to crawl at 700 steps/second.

Taken aback, I cleared the gene pool and added and -100 fitness modifier
to body size (adding more onto the velocity and distance modifiers to
counterbalance it) and set it going for another 2 hours.

Came back to sticks with no more than 2 body parts, no brains, and
(again) scarcely moving.

Of the several months I've used framsticks, I've never encountered the
classicly documented lazy worm problem before today. Is there a
particular parameter that I might've changed which caused them to evolve
in such a way?

For amusement's sake, I included the genotype of the largest of these
monsters below.

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saved AC3D object causes crash

Submitted by Kristian Houghtling on Tue, 2004-03-09 01:05

I have AC3D and when I load for example "greenstick1.ac" into AC3D and then
resave without any model changes, it causes frams to crash.

If I resave the greenstick1.ac using a copy of another stick that was never
loaded/saved using AC3D, frams will run just fine. Is this a bug or is there
something I'm missing. I have read the previous posts by Alain but I can't
solve the problem. Any thoughts?

thanks
Kristian

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Genotype formula script?

Submitted by Kimbar on Mon, 2004-03-08 22:04

I've got some idea. I put it here to discuss it with you.

I think that it would be nice if we could write scripts defining new
genotypes formulas. Only few functions will be needed, like: converf0(),
mutate(), crossover(), and so on. To make it easier maybe codification of f1
genotype in script form should be avalitable. I've got some idea of genotype
formula, but to use it I have to change the code of whole application. I
hope that there are no difficulties in puting it into framstick-script form
in separate file.

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How to convert f0 to f1?

Submitted by crz on Sat, 2004-02-28 15:51

2 newbie questions:
- how do I convert a f0 genotype to a f1 genotype.
- how do you calculate for instance the fitness values for a set of genotypes?

thx

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Framsticks Deathmatch Challenge!

Submitted by Maciej Komosinski on Thu, 2004-02-26 14:31

There is an interesting experiment available at

http://www.aisland.org/vll/projects/deathmatch.htm

You can try to design your own winning creatues.
See also other experiment ideas at

http://www.aisland.org/vll/projects/index.htm

MacKo

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How to put a 3D object like a stair ?

Submitted by Alain Lioret on Fri, 2004-02-20 11:01

Hi,

How can I put some 3D objects in the style files (like a stair), so that the
creatures can collide with and can climb on it ?
More generally, how can we make a complete set (location) for a new type of
experimentation (with stairs, houses, doors, ...)

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Blender import and export AC files !

Submitted by Alain Lioret on Tue, 2004-02-17 11:32

Big info for Framsticks users :
Blender (free) can now import and export AC files (AC3D).

You can find it at : www.blender.org

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The rule for the greensticks . ac ?

Submitted by Alain Lioret on Tue, 2004-02-10 17:29

I see you use 5 greensticks AC files for the creatures. Why ? Can we use
more or less ?
What are the rules ?
And, what about the shapes of these sticks ? I've made some experiments to
change the shapes (with AC3D) but I get some problems with self collisions.
What can we do, and what can't we do ?

Thanks

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saved AC3D object causes crash

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Framsticks Deathmatch Challenge!

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Blender import and export AC files !

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