On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 13:29, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> Actually, this is starting to remind me of the 2004 ICFP contest, >> <http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/ants.html>, >> although that's a lot more heavy-weight than what we'd be seeking to do >> here. (It had teams of ants moving around a grid, using their senses to >> grab food and detect and kill rival ants.) > > Yes that does rather resemble what this would look like in 2D, another > nice link! > For several years there was a spinoff of this contest at http://ant-wars.net with a small community following. Someone had built a UI and implemented a lisp-ish input language. The game was evnetually abandon (it appears the domain is down now too) but not before some pretty interesting programs were devised (like ant "tanks" consisting of five ants that would roam the battlefield munching on their enemies and turning them into food).
BobTHJ
