Changeset 1239 for cpp/frams/genetics/f4/f4_general.h

Timestamp:

05/08/23 02:10:57 (12 months ago)

Author:

Maciej Komosinski

Message:

More robust stopping condition for organism development: no longer based on declarations of cells (I am active or I am not), but on the observation of their actual development progress

File:

• cpp/frams/genetics/f4/f4_general.h (modified) (2 diffs)

cpp/frams/genetics/f4/f4_general.h

@@ -190 +190 @@
         f4_Node *genot;                    ///<genotype tree
         f4_Node *gcur;                 ///<current genotype execution pointer
-        bool active;                   ///<determines whether development is still active; even if false, the cell may "yield" - may be halted (but still having its onStep() called) due to neural connections waiting for other cells to potentially develop neurons
+        f4_Node *old_gcur;             ///<used externally by f4_Cells::oneStep() to track changes of gcur, i.e., to detect progress in cell development
         repeat_stack repeat;           ///<stack holding repetition nodes and counters
         int recProcessedFlag;          ///<used during recursive traverse
@@ -329 +329 @@
         f4_Cell *C[F4_MAX_CELLS];  ///<Array of all cells of an organism
         int     cell_count;        ///<Number of cells in an organism
+        bool    development_stagnation; ///< simulate() and oneStep() use it to force f4_Cell's waiting to develop their neural connections to progress, indicating that all cells have not had progress during the last step
 
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