Submission - Dragonball Evolution

[mhelvens]

Sorry about the title! 😅 But it fits the submission so well, I couldn't resist. No disrespect intended, Toriyama sensei!

My submission allows you to place your first dragon ball on a 3D Earth by shift-clicking somewhere on its surface. It then runs an evolutionary algorithm to optimize the locations of all the other balls so as to maximize the sum of the distances between all pairs, penalizing balls for being in the water.

Video: https://youtu.be/YaOUmnvOWC0 Try it yourself: https://dragonball_evolution.playcode.io Code: https://playcode.io/dragonball_evolution

Disclaimer: There are many ways to improve this code that I didn't have time for. For example:

• Clean it up. This may be the messiest code I ever patched together.
• Display information on the canvas, rather than require the user to open their browser console.
• Run the evolutionary algorithm in a web worker, so it doesn't slow down the UI.
• Add stars to the dragon balls!

[vjeux]

I kinda want to fly on a cloud to pick them up!