Researchers in the video below filled an ant colony with concrete and dug it out to see just how exactly the colony was organized underground. The results are just plain awesome. Ants farm fungus and use livestock (aphids), build cities and wage wars. What the video refers to as a hive consciousness is emergent behavior: [...]
Posts Tagged ‘emergent behavior’
Ants are awesome
Posted: 17 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: ant colonies, ants, books, city, clifford d simak, emergent behavior, sci-fi
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Behold! The horde…
Posted: 2 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: claytronics, emergent behavior, real sci-fi, robot uprising, robotics, robots, swarm robots, turing test
If there ever is a robot uprising, I fear I may be at ground zero. In a case where reality mirrors art (kinda sorta), Carnegie Mellon researchers (including Seth Goldstein) are working on a swarm of small robots held together by magnetic fields. This will allow them to take on just about any shape. Of [...]
Teeming with life
Posted: 18 October 2007 in UncategorizedTags: cellular automata, conway's game of life, cool stuff, emergent behavior, fairy rings, fungus, mushroom life, mushrooms
The web seems to be overflowing with cool stuff these days. If you’re a fan of cellular automata like me, Mushroom Life will provide at least a few minutes of time-wasting fun. Click on the square to add a few initial mushrooms, perhaps trying one of the patterns they have listed. The image below is [...]
