Day 13, "Seed". I don't know that I realized my vision for today but I learned a lot. The idea was to have a population of agents/particles that evolve over time to consume the "food" laid down along the path of a random fourier curve.
Each agent has a genome that encodes a sequence of actions (move forward, turn left, turn right). Each generation, the fittest agents are selected to breed and create a new generation with crossover and mutation. The fitness function rewards agents for consuming food and for covering new ground.
I was hoping to evolve an agent that could find and follow the fourier food path but they never really get there. I think I need to revisit the fitness function and/or the genome expression.
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