Framsticks

Excellent, thankyou.

I had a suspicion the names could only be a rough guide to similar species,
but had no idea certain characters mean certain things.

And, Ugh! Scripting Langage number 762734 to learn ;P

Thanks for you help,

Matt.

"szymon" wrote in message
news:amo6rr$3n7$1@cancer.cs.put.poznan.pl...
> > Is it possible to output more detailed periodic 'backups' of the
> experiment
> > state? Values like the fitness of each genotype in the pool?
>
> you can change the experiment definition.
> in scripts/standard.expdef (data/standard.expdef in pre 2.2 framsticks)
> we have:
>
> function onExpSave()
>
> and later:
>
> while(i < GenotypeGroup.count)
> {
> GenotypeLibrary.genotype=i;
> File.writeNameObject("org",Genotype.*);
> i++;
> }
>
> this loop saves each genotype in genotype pool.
> by adding the additional statement inside the loop:
>
> while(i < GenotypeGroup.count)
> {
> GenotypeLibrary.genotype=i;
> File.writeNameObject("org",Genotype.*);
>
> File.writeComment("Fitness for >"+Genotype.name+"< =
> "+Genotype.fitness);
> i++;
> }
>
> we can add comment just after the genotype data (which can be hopefully
> recognized by your perl script/whatever).
>
>
> > Also, what exactly do the names of the Frams signify? What do Frams with
> the
> > same last name have in common?
> [...]
>
> there are some simple rules used for creating the last name:
> - number of consonants corresponds to the number of body parts,
subsequent
> characters "describe" subsequent parts (or part groups).
> - characters "shtkdgmr" mean: "s"=no branching, "r"=extensive branching
> - similarly, number of vowels (yeaou) depends on the number of neurons
> - "y"=no neuron connections, "u"=many connections
>
> as a result, similar genotypes have similar names but it cannot be
reliably
> used as the similarity measure - it is only a cue. the last names can be
> similar despite creatures are very different if they only have similar
> number of parts/joints/neurons/connections and their order is similar.
>
>
> sz.
>
>

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