An implementation of emergent computing/ant robotics, simulated using Processing. The idea is a set of simple machines (robots?) that–following simple rules and working collectively–can create something surprisingly complex. This is a very basic example of what the concept can do.
Talk Dan Belcher of LMN tech studio recently gave at PSU. He discusses the relationship between parametrics and performance analysis through the use of various modeling and simulation software,
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Randomized Field Tutorial
This basic tutorial was done before grasshopper had the “Random Reduce” component. RR makes this much easier, but the concepts that underlie what I was trying to teach are still quite valid.
degree of difficulty: basic
