More interesting Heatbugs...

[Chris Langton]

To the collectively evolving hive(s)...

Heatbugs gets a lot more interesting if you allow a larger diversty of
bugs in the
world.

  Try setting the initial parameters as follows:

        minIdealTemp: 170
        maxIdealTemp: 31000
        minOutputHeat: 300
        maxOutputHeat: 10000

(The Max's are the same as the default settings for the heatbugs app,
but the
Min's have been lowered significantly)

  When run, the hi-temp seeking bugs still find each other and cluster,
but the
low temp-seeking bugs do all kinds of interesting things around the
hi-temp
clusters, many of them forming, well, swarms actually, of co-travelling
bugs.
Some of these swarms are quite long-lived, but most eventually break up.

(Remember to invoke the app with the --varyseed option..)

Chris Langton




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