10/01/2002
5:45 PM

 

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Frankentosh: Building Robots using Mac OS X
 
   
  • Robocode -- Advanced Concepts
    • Guesstimates
      • This is one of the newer concepts, although it's pretty understandable once you get it.
      • A robot called SandboxLump started hitting dang near everything around it...
      • Finally someone came out with how it was doing it, it was using a "guess factor"
      • Basically, it's creating "virtual bullets", aiming them using a "guess factor" and finding out if those bullets would have it.
      • Then it creates a rolling average for how accurate those bullets are, and fires using the most accurate guess factor.
      • In a lot of ways, it's a excellent way to get around not being able to fire multiple bullets and fire very often
 
   
Ted Stevko, Stevko Studios http://www.plasticnoodle.com