[annevolve] Regarding ANNEvolve

[Mitchell Timin]

Tha sounds fine. Till now I had read through the essays and the docs
only. Now am diving into the code also, starting off with 4Play (great
explanatory comments there). Once am through that, I'll try to
provide/add similar level info for the pending projects also. So just
give me some time to fully understand the 4Play code.
Also, any new idea/thought is always welcome. Would love to start
something from the scratch. So please let me know if you have
something lying around that I can also ponder upon.
And yes, I have been following the discussions on the mail lately
after subscribing to it, specifically the mail related to the
'Motivation'. I must say that it was like I was reading my own
thoughts aloud. The reason I am craving to start a project etc. is to
keep my motivation up so that I have something useful to feed my mind,
which tends to grow pall with the repetitive office work.
So, any new ideas will be great!

There was a thread called "The Next Big Thing" in which we discussed
various possibilities for future work. You can find it in the
archives. There were about 60 posts, beginning in April of this year.

Since you know C++ you might like to work with an existing simulator
which could both simulate and animate some kind of robot or aerospace
vehicle. There are several of these in the public domain. The idea is
that we would provide an ANN that controls the thing and produces some
kind of behaviour. The existing software that we would use would
provide the simulation of the physics involved, and also illustrate the
behavior with graphical animation.

I know of two examples of that type of thing. One is called jsbsim; it
simulates flying things. The other is ODE for Open Dynamics Engine. It
is for linked mechanical things, like a robot. How about a bicycle?
Maybe we can have bicycle races? (Have you seen RARS - the Robot Auto
Racing Simulator? - that's a creation of mine from 1995 that I'm proud of.)

m
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or articles, or do testing or research for ANNEvolve, let me know.



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[Mitchell Timin]

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There was a thread called "The Next Big Thing" in which we discussed
various possibilities for future work. You can find it in the
archives. There were about 60 posts, beginning in April of this year.

I went to the archives myself to have a look. I found the thread,
showing 55 replies, but when I clicked on the title, no messages came
up. Other threads worked fine, but not this one. I tried several
times, same thing.

But later I discovered that you could reach them using the search box.
After you click "Mail", and then annevolve-devel Archives
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=32765>, on the
upper right of the screen are two search boxes. The upper one is for
searching the SF website, but the lower one is for searching our
archives. When I put in "next big thing" there, it showed all of the
messages individually, and they were availble.

m