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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A> (Chris Gray)</LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Fri, 15 May 98 19:27:34 MST</LI>
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[J C Lawrence:]
:Translation: It took about 30 minutes for the first TC population
:explosion to occur. 20 minutes later they all died of starvation.
:Within a couple days the entire world was knee deep in TC spores.
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:TC's need an effective predator which has its own cyclic population
:behaviour (needs to be dependant on TC population, but enough
:out-of-step to prevent steady-states from occuring).
Sounds similar to the old "sharks and fish" simulation. It was in the
Mathematical Games section of Scientific American some years ago. I recall
from playing that a friend and I did that you can tune the various parameters
to keep things going for quite a long time.
For those who don't recall it, it was something like this:
- a steady supply of plankton falls from the sky. This is implemented as
food dots appearing randomly over the display area.
- fish swim around randomly, and eat food dots they encounter. If they go
over a certain length of time without food, they die of starvation. If
they are over a certain age, and the amount of food eaten recently is
over another tunable value, they reproduce - yielding one new fish. If
a fish detects a shark in one of 8 immediately neighbouring cells, it
will try to move away from it (not always possible, but the world is
the usual rectangular torus thingy).
- sharks are a lot like fish, except that they have separate parameters for
their starvation, maturity and reproduction values. If they see a fish
in one of the neighbouring cells, they will move to that cell on their
next turn. If they enter a cell with a fish, they eat it.
(I may have some details wrong - its been a while.)
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Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00667" HREF="msg00667.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: OT: Java multithreading performance</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00685" HREF="msg00685.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: OT: Java multithreading performance</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Tue 19 May 1998, 03:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00688" HREF="msg00688.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: OT: Java multithreading performance</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Tue 19 May 1998, 05:32 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00627" HREF="msg00627.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MURKLE: Wot it is</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00709" HREF="msg00709.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MURKLE: Wot it is</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Tue 19 May 1998, 19:33 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00643" HREF="msg00643.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MURKLE: Wot it is</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00645" HREF="msg00645.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: MURKLE: Wot it is</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00652" HREF="msg00652.html">[MUD-Dev] Titanic's demise (was Re: MURKLE: Wot it is)</A></strong>,
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