Re: Q:SIM_AGENT - like displays with SWARM?

[Paul E. Johnson]

Eric Werk wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Have you seen the movies made with the SIM_AGENT package? Take a look:
> 
> http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/cog_affect/sim_demo/sim_movies.html
> 
> I think they look rather nice, I like the way the agents moved in
> continuous space and were represented by easily-identifiable characters.
> I was wondering how to make a similar graphic output with the SWARM
> system, for my agents.
> 
> Has anybody done anything like this?

I wonder if you would look at an app I put together called
celebrityHeatbugs.  It uses pixmaps of famous faces in places of the
heatbug dots.  That achieves the "easily-identifiable" characters part
of your problem.  As for the continuous space part, I think you have to
settle for a grid with very fine mesh.  After all, a computer screen is
a fine grid, not a truly continuous space. 

Find it in http://lark.cc.ukans.edh/~pauljohn/Swarm

I am looking for a few nice pixmaps of BillClinton and MonicaLewinski to
add to that collection, if anybody spots a likely photo, grab it and
send it along.

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