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Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations

Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations

Sebastian Lague
6 HN recommenders · discussed 2021–2024
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About this video

Sebastian Lague explores an ant-inspired algorithm and simulates ant and slime mold behavior, using compute shaders. Source code for both simulations is available.

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HN recommends it as a beautiful example of what simple rules and compute shaders can produce, and many commenters were inspired by it.

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From the Hacker News discussion

ehsankia · 2021-04 · strong rec

Speaking of ant and slime simulation, this recent video Coding Adventures video was pretty mind blowing: [VIDEO] (Especially part 2 starting around 10m in).

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Udo · 2023-05 · strong rec

Sebastian Lague made an excellent video "Ant and Slime Simulations" which explores how path-finding algorithms can use trails and gradient-based signaling to solve spatial problems: [VIDEO]

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Risord · 2024-08 · strong rec

At the time I was lost joy of coding too but I was able to found it again. One key point was to ignore learning new tech if it was not absolutely necessary and focus just creating new things. I think it all started from Sebastian Lague's video which reminded how beautiful coding can be. [ [VIDEO] ]

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theossuary · 2021-03 · rec

This reminds me of a coding adventure YT video that replicates slime molds in Unity, look at the end to see some high res videos of it - [VIDEO]

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Berg0X00 · 2021-06 · rec

Thanks for sharing this! I have not watched the full video yet but definitely will. Recently got interested in compute shaders thanks to this video: [VIDEO] and can recommend it to those that want to see a bit of what is possible with compute shaders.

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Nezteb · 2023-05 · rec

I love ants and replicating their behavior in code! You might like these projects: "Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations" by Sebastian Lague: Video: [VIDEO] Code [LINK] "C++ Ants Simulation 1, First approach" by Pezzza's Work: Video: [LINK] Code: [LINK]

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