Ant colony simulator

A more piecemeal simulation released by Maxis back in 1991. Possibly some inspirations (red ants vs black ants, food represented in green circles/spheres):<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt</a>

A good book exploring simple computational models of complex systems with emergent behaviour is <i>Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams</i> by Michael Resnick.<p><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&#38;tid=5368" rel="nofollow">http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&#38...</a>

This reminds me of Rich Hickey's Clojure Concurrency talk[1], where he uses a simulation of an ant colony to explain Clojure's concurrency features. Hickey's version[2] is a lot simpler, but remains an interesting starting point if you want to hack on something similar.<p>[1] <a href="http://blip.tv/file/812787" rel="nofollow">http://blip.tv/file/812787</a><p>[2] <a href="http://clojure.googlegroups.com/web/ants.clj?gda=T0C_CjoAAADKqc_OBXvAPFRl94RaAIUvcpc6E-YHRrsRh9IuR-MtA-9OU0NQiFWgQuhmPR7veGf97daDQaep90o7AOpSKHW0" rel="nofollow">http://clojure.googlegroups.com/web/ants.clj?gda=T0C_CjoAAAD...</a>

"- Magnifier:<p>zoom in and zoom out."<p>Aw, I was hoping the magnifier did something else.

We've created a basic ant simulation as a Python library for NodeBox. NodeBox runs on Mac but the library is cross-platform.<p><a href="http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Ants" rel="nofollow">http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Ants</a>

Anyone want to write a HTML5 version? Where the ants are each Erlang processes?

Reminds me of Michael Crichton's "Prey". Let's hope they can't apply these rules to something living.

I have a really beautiful simulation of ant foraging I coded up in Processing a while back. I'm currently porting all of this kind of work I have done to Python (via Pyglet) and will have to remember to post a link to it here when it's done. (See my profile info for linke to a very small sample.)<p>* Edit: "A very small sample" of the kind of thing I've been doing. No samples of the ant simulation to share just yet...

Sim Ant... Brings back some really good memories.

I did a pretty well-received ant harvesting simulation in second life a while ago.<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehEzRUu4_RM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehEzRUu4_RM</a>

HOLY CRAP!<p>I have been picturing this software in my head since i was 15!<p>Although, my version was a game which you build 3d tunnels and Manage a triangle of resources/ant-classes

Repeatedly crashes on Windows 7.