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nebogeo / dazzlebug

a new camouflage evolution experiment
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Patterning of targets #3

Closed scienceanna closed 9 years ago

scienceanna commented 9 years ago

Would it be possible to have some more geometric patterns in the starter populations? At the moment the patterns seem quite diffuse/speckled - we're interested in the effects of stripes/spots/zigzags etc. and it's not clear to us how long it would take for these to evolve/whether they can evolve at all in the current parameter space.

nebogeo commented 9 years ago

No they can't in the current parameter space, but I'm dying to add them :)

scienceanna commented 9 years ago

Cool, please do!

nebogeo commented 9 years ago

This is now done - here are some examples of mutations of random genomes, we've added to the egglab parameter space so all the previous patterns can still be expressed too...

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nebogeo commented 9 years ago

Also - I've removed a feature we used in egglab that we decided was a mistake to include, where the same genome would create different variations of a pattern. The reasoning was to simulate environment interaction "noise" to avoid image recognition to specific patterns by the players.

However this didn't really turn out to be an issue and it's quite a lot of added complexity to explain. Now the same genome will always provide exactly the same pattern - I'm assuming this is what you need...