Ant Movement

This is the animation and the script that is moving our "ants" around and stopping them at the food source. The next step of the process is to have them start to return to back to the "colony"

Bloom and Neil

//ant script
//create food nodes//assign for loop to assign number of nodesfor($n=1;$n<6;$n++){//assign nodename="node" c="rand(-30,30);$d="rand(-30,30);move" j="1;$j<5;$j++){" name="ant" i="1;$i<300;$i++){" 10="="0)" a="{rand(-1,1),rand(-1,1),rand(-1,1),rand(-1,1)};" b="{rand(-1,1),rand(-1,1),rand(-1,1),rand(-1,1)};}" k="1;$k<5;$k++){" ant="ant" overlap="false;" h="1;$h<6;$h++){" ax =" eval(" az =" eval(" node="node" nx =" eval(" nz =" eval(" diffx =" abs((float)($ax-$nx));" diffz =" abs((float)($az-$nz));" overlap="true;" overlap="=">

wind effect for possible crystal growth

l-system images

I posted another view of the an animation that is in plan view so that it is easier to see how the spheres are moving

competing radial fields

Newton Field with radial influence

This is adding radial fields to influence the orbit of the spheres as they move about the "food source" (newton field).