Evolving Steering Behaviors

This sketch is an elaboration on a Coding Challenge (#69) done on the Coding Train by Dan Shiffman. I began with the code from the end of part 4 and added several things. For a list of things that I changed, see the changes.txt file on the side. You can find this file on the Github Repo for this project.

Explanation of Interaction

• Yellow vehicles are healthy and become orange as they are declining in health. A health of 0 causes the vehicle to die and be removed
• Vehicles have a maximum lifespan of 14000 frames and slowly darken until they get to their 14000th frame when they die an are removed
• Vehicles are outlined in white when they are mature enough to reproduce and are half sized when they are younger than 2 seconds old.
• Food is cyan, Poison is red, Radioactivity is green
• Clicking the mouse lets you launch a nuke. Click the canvas and hold the w key to grow the nuke radius. hold the s key to shrink the nuke radius.
• Release the mouse to detonate or press q to cancel
• You can see statistics and adjust various settings below.
• This sketch is largely event driven. Hover the mouse in the upper left to see all events in real time. See here for a full description of the events used