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		mclin on June 1, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cells. A massively multi-agent Python programming ... re: communicating through movement, don't ants and bees actually do this? It would be cool if you could drop pheremone trails too. I'm thinking like a programmable Sim Ant

SIGSEGV on June 1, 2010 | [–]

>It would be cool if you could drop pheremone trails too. I'm thinking like a programmable Sim Ant

That's what ICFP 2004 was. Here's the specification, if you want ideas:

http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/ants....

http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/index...

tel on June 1, 2010 | [–]

There are the infamous bee dances, if that counts.

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