Interesting Projects

I'm making a life simulator.  You watch little organisms move around the screen.  Each organism has a 16 character DNA sequence, which is like a string of instructions.  r makes them turn right, l makes them turn left, etc.  Each step they execute the next instruction.  They age and die as well, but when an organism touches food, they get more life and spawn an off spring with a slight mutation of their own DNA.  This means the retards that spin in circles will die off while the ones that move most will keep eating food and reproducing.  It's not very scientifically accurate with evolution and such, but it's fun to watch.  There are other factors like the rate that food spawns that will effect population and such.

So /prog/, what are some interesting projects that you're working on?

I am working on a EXPERT BOARD-SPAMMER, which is not all that exciting.  I also want to use 2D sprites to make some little game or something, maybe an RPG.

I think your life simulator is more interesting.  What did you code it in?

FORCED INDENTATION OF THE CODE + Pygame

>>1
At the moment I'm doing nothing, but thanks for the idea, I will have some fun with teeny-weenie little organisms *grabs dick*.

I'm making /prog/ mobile. it's a python script the generates cell phone friendly pages and hosts them online.

Rewriting Shiichan in C Actually, I've not got a project just now, just doing some light reading on system programming + network programming

Naught but my homework. It's semi-interesting, but I think it'll pick up a bit at the end of the term.

A compiled-code compiler.

a The ABC Programming Language compiler

So /prog/, what are some interesting projects that you're working on?

I have been working on my anonymous BBS script: http://bbs.tablecat.co.cc/

>>10
Needs more ^B_BCODE.

>>11
It will be done at a later time... like tomorrow.

The Anonix Time-Sharing Multiuser System

ANGTSMS Not GNU Time-Shareing Multiuser System

Rudy Ruckers Boppors  - released aeons ago, could be upgraded into something pretty good now.

>>1
I've been looking at the program I wrote to do OP's thing, and I laughed like a madman at a poor organism that was spinning around, hopelessly missing the food by just one square. I don't know why, but it was funny in a retarded way.

CONWAYS GAME OF DICKS

>>1
Does your "project" got a GUI? I would love to see it myself do you release the source code or a compiled version?

I am now working on the same type of thing as OP, except that I fucking suck at coding so it's not going to be as good

Lettuce see your life simulator, OP!

Lettuce
so what, we're just replacing random words with homophones now?

sow wot, whee'ray juiced replacing random words withe homophones now?

mmm if you really must see here is a screen shot.

http://img268.imageshack.us/i/ss1zym.png/

I call the organisms 'Things' for some reason.

learning erlang, might take this idea up for my first program

>>1
This sounds like an incredibly awesome simulator. I would play it.

>>24
You sound like you're incredibly easy to impress.

>>25
No, you're just a faggot who for some reason has a problem with OP and gets butthurt if he is praised in any way.

Simulator games are awesome, and OP's idea is exactly what I hoped Spore would be, but it was a shit game.

>>26
back to /b/, please.

:(

My little organisms are eating my memory when they multiply too much. :(

>>1
Check out darwin bots.

>>29
A free artificial life program running under Windows.
No, thank you.

Twitter/Laconica backup script, because Twitter is too unreliable and hard to search. Not really that interesting project, but I'm enjoying it.

Also I'm working on what you call a "Web 2.0" website, basically it's online brainstorming. Lately it's has been coming together nicely and I'm quite pleased with results. It just went live for people with invites. I wish I had more time to work on it.

>>31
Web 2.0
W-|

>>27
[quote]baw baw someone's being nice/complimentary and I can't think of a valid retort[/quote]

>>33
baw baw
back to /b/, please.

>>26
You were hoping Spore would be a trivial genetic algorithms exercise?