C++ Ants Simulation 1, First approach

I have always been fascinated by ants and their ability to find paths so I decided to create a very basic simulator to see if I could manage to observe this behaviour virtually :)
Github github.com/johnBuffer/AntSimu...
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[@PezzzasWork]

Here is a windows executable, instructions in the ReadMe file. github.com/johnBuffer/AntSimulator/releases/download/v1.2/AntsSimulator.zip

[@achmadhanif1451]

thxnks man

[@xinjunyin4140]

Appreciate for sharing。

[@yossi_cohen]

Ultra awesome!!!

[@ThePlayfulJoker]

wow man, this content is awesome. Also, I would recommend more clicky thumbnails/title, appeared 3 times in my feed before I clicked it.

[@PezzzasWork]

@@ThePlayfulJoker The problem is that I am a pure dev with no com skills :(

[@MeisVlk]

At 1:41 there is a "circle of death" at the bottom right of the video - this happens in nature too, as far as i know!

[@redtoxic8701]

damn that's cool

[@villaticlang4844]

why is it called the "circle of death"? Is it called that because most of the ants within the circle will never find their way back home?

[@MeisVlk]

@@villaticlang4844 thats how i remembered the name but i think the official name is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill and yes, it can sometimes happen until some of them die of exhaustion :(

[@ac281201]

@@villaticlang4844 Yes, exactly. They will circle around until they die from exhaustion.

[@zrny]

in moshpits under the stage :D

[@Calmputer]

My dad was creating a similar simulator once upon a time, and any time he hit a snag he'd explain the problem to me as a way to get a new perspective etc... one of the problems he'd encountered that sometimes the ants would just start circling around each other in a loop... and he just couldn't figure out how to stop it.. Until I pointed out that they're called "Ant mills" and that it happens in real life too. Some times, it both is and isn't a bug.

[@stheil]

That technique is called "Rubber ducking" in software development (as in explain your problem to a rubber duck, because sometimes just going through the problem from the beginning, from a fresh point of view, can help you find a solution). And the ants forming loops is a bug in nature, not your father's simulator XD

[@roba_recondita]

So if I got this right, you are telling me that your father didn't code to make it happen but just happened anyway, just like in nature? I have no experience in coding so I might misunderstood. Hope to get a response, I'm really curious

[@Calmputer]

@@roba_recondita you got it exactly right.he had no idea ants did that for real and thought it was a bug with his programming.

[@willjohnson4579]

Whenever I'm showing my code to my Dad and he mentions something thats both a bug and a feature we usually end up saying "is it a bug or a feature? Yes"

[@matheusgclassen]

something similar that i've had happen to me is that i would ask a teacher/professor for help, and as i described the problem to him i would end up thinking of a solution myself and not needing the help after all.

[@enitalp]

Now add, an ants killer, then ants, can craft railguns if they can find the resources and then they can try to defend themselves learning with a genetic algorithm, then add jectpacks, laser and spaceships and then...

[@Maca64N]

they will kill all humans

[@elblorenz3278]

Sadly, They are not conducting electricity enough to get accellerated in a railgun... Otherwise they had plenty of ammo that could keep on attacking even after it impacted 🤔

[@dima5467]

@@elblorenz3278 The fuck are you saying?

[@Eric-zz5ij]

@@dima5467 That ant's aren't viable bullets

[@TheMagicat]

Just go all out Villager News and build the railgun out of ants 😄

[@nlaps]

Me at 4am regreting my life choices watching ants

[@EliteTester]

5:30 here :|

[@aff6341]

3:39 AM here 😂😂😂

[@kyleleblancvlogs3820]

11:37AM What day is it?

[@nightfuryVal]

why does this comment not have a heart

[@TURBOCOW9000]

same..

[@Starmander]

I love this. One thing I think is missing that would be fun to see is the two different personalities or behaviors of ants that will correct the paths to be more and more direct over time. You'd need some ants to be really strictly following the paths and then others that are more experimental that wander off the trail even when it's there. I'm not sure exactly how it works, but over time this tends to straighten out the paths.

[@PezzzasWork]

I made a new version implementing this kzbin.info/www/bejne/m561iXWoaq-ppbs

[@Starmander]

@@PezzzasWork wow cool! That's awesome.

[@haieknagasaki4709]

Hey man. You've been mentioned in the latest video from Sebastian Lague so expect some more traffic to your channel :)

[@dairop3220]

no way

[@Danila1]

Fucking youtube humants following the pheromone scent

[@dairop3220]

@@Danila1 Haha yeah, we found DATA PHEROMONES

[@bluethumbbuttoneek9465]

From who?. Dunno who this Sebastian guys is so prob won't be much more traffic

[@siydge]

so THAAATS why the algorithm has been showing me these videos...

[@shivanshusuryakar8692]

Finally someone used a "bug" in the production, lol !

[@qwerty-qw2zc]

It's like ASMR but for the eyes Good video. Nice

[@dezy9955]

I love watching your vids before bed I saw one the other week and lost your channel but I found it again! I love how relaxing your videos are they are simple yet amazing

[@kypello3512]

Who else got this recommend after watching sebastian lague?

[@David-kc4zi]

me :)

[@cadenorris4009]

Me

[@BlenderDefender]

Here I am

[@arcknightmc7486]

me too

[@beaconblaster33]

well i searched for this

[@forabbycookie699]

awesome work as always

[@PezzzasWork]

Thank you :D

[@GuRuGeorge03]

The fact that u can create such an accurate model of how ants work with 3 rather baisc rules is absolutely fascinating. u can even easily translate this into 3 and even higher dimensions. just incredible

[@adamwisniewski5898]

actually, most of so-called complex systems can be modeled/are determined by few simple rules. For example: flocking of schools of fish, John Conway's Game of Life, any cellular automata etc

[@SpringySpring04]

I keep finding myself coming back and rewatching this ant sim series. It's so interesting to think about, and I always try to see if I can make an ant simulation myself, which, I haven't fully succeeded in yet, but I'm getting there. I love this series!

[@walterh2113]

Be prepared for the Sebastian Lague horde.

[@UmzGames]

This is such a brilliant simulation. Will probably implement something similar but more basic for KAE, your algorithm here creates such great patterns and it's fun to watch!

[@rxpmbeats7453]

can u please suggest me some videos from where i can learn how to buld up these types of simulation

[@UmzGames]

@@rxpmbeats7453 I suggest Phaser JS, for something simple. JavaScript, easy to get it working. But depends on your skillset

[@Zalied]

I think one of my favorite thing about ants is they have a nature best path solution. Since as the ants follow the trail back they slowly cut corners and turns as they can sense a little ahead of themselves. This automatically straightens rounded paths out over time

[@MrNucleosome]

I found one of the most interesting KZbin channels. Thanks for sharing your experiments.

[@cheydinal5401]

Very cool simulation, thanks! I'd be interested to see some more complex behaviors come from a similation like this

[@soliderarmatang5664]

This is incredible!!! Thank you so much for sharing! I'm going to read your code and learn how you did this :) This makes me very happy I get to learn something new!!!

[@andreygrigorev8366]

Gorgeous! I guess that you can create really cool animations with it if you turn color of "randomly wandering ant" to bg color / invisible

[@AngryTomato828]

I absolutely loved it please and try to do something like this again!

[@GodOfReality]

I think it would be neat if there was a really low percent chance (

[@HungryTacoBoy]

Came here from the accidental bug video. Amazing work!

[@ozkarreyesromero7424]

I enjoyed see how the ants works! amazing proyect dude!

[@RexGalilae]

Fascinating. I'm willing to bet that the ant probably treats every path as a different source of food, even though it leads to the same source as the other

[@FragMoviesByFleet]

Good job man! It's beatiful! I try to repeat your program! It's very intresting

[@nullempt]

Ok so I was doing my coding HW and right after this I started my research about ants because I got my brand new ant farm today. Guess what was in my recommendations? Great work btw!

[@erinkarp]

I love the use of markers, clever!

[@ArthurCousseau]

Truly beautiful to watch

[@warvstar]

Very nice! Now I want to do this too! I think I'll try my hand at this.

[@chinmayghule8272]

And this is a BASIC simulator... What am I doing with my life? Cool work!

[@mrtruman4339]

Ok but WHY do you have *only* 995 subs (996 if we include myself now). This is fascinating. Great work.

[@ZOLDAIOQUE88MADACI]

A fabulous work I really like it, I would love ust to highlight bout the idea of (ant colony optimization method) to choose the hortest path from and to their food source based on their pheromone propagation. But really great job bro

[@MrDreadlocksman]

This is the most beautiful thing I have seen today!

[@stttrm]

this is so satisfying awesome work

[@TheSgrizli]

I'm impressed very nice work

[@RichardPLopes]

This is amazing. Congrats

[@PezzzasWork]

Thank you!

[@punker2472]

your work is wonderful! I really like it

[@brayanbenjamin479]

This is really good, i'm impressed

[@MJZA93]

That was insanely satisfying to watch

[@alvarorodriguezgarcia9126]

I think this can be a good algorithm to make caves in a 3D voxel terrain. I code every day on unity3D and I'd like to do something similar in the near future.

[@micomator]

If an ant forms a loop while exploring for food, how does it know which path to take when returning home for food? Does it remember a general compass direction to home? Does it always turn left to avoid a loop? Does it remember the areas it has recently travelled and avoid repeating? Thanks

[@nikitademodov3446]

Why did you specify C++? But this is very cool! You found an interesting topic and made a video about it that anyone can watch and understand! Well done!

[@PezzzasWork]

Thank you! The "C++" label is because I share the code in the descritption :)

[@penfelyn]

This is extremely beautiful

[@GabrieleLabanca]

Great! Should we expect that, on the long term, the paths become straight lines?

[@StuartGilbert]

I once made this same simulation in JavaScript. I ended up iterating so many objects (scent trails, ants, and food) that it crawled to a halt in my browser. I keep meaning to make a better version in Unity or something like that. Very cool to see this version.

[@sayamqazi]

Use pixi-js. You can render atelast tens of thousands of sprites at crsip framerate

[@leelou0796]

Very relaxing, maybe it'll help me fall back asleep..

[@PezzzasWork]

Ants are helpful in a lot of ways :)

[@Noobmaster_x69]

Beautiful simulation!

[@abdullahh283]

Very nice work, github is very beneficial, thanks for that!

[@evanshlom1]

A lot of jobs I’m almost qualified for require ant optimization techniques so this is cool to see a visual of

[@visionkrypto6760]

This simulation reminds me of how the Physarum Polycephalum fungus spreads to find food, its interesting to see how the paths develope to shorter and shorter connections

[@RichardAugust]

That is so kewl. Should be getting millions of views.

[@legendgames128]

If we were to make the ants invisible, it'd look like a magical force is trying to find resources and is taking it back home.

[@astropgn]

Very cool! It would be interesting if it had more signals. For example, different species that avoids the signal of the other species, or sentinels that are near the hive and just go out if they receive dots signaling danger. It can get very complex with just a few parameters.

[@smil2k]

Richard Feynmann described this logic in his book "you must be kidding, Mr. Feynmann". He observed, that once ants found some food, they excitedly run back to the nest and bring some fellows checking the path a couple of times. While running they cut corners, therefore every time they reiterate the path to the food it is optimized. After 7 iterations it is usually the shortest path to their home. Also there are two types of ants who follow the path and other are making it. It would be nice addition to this model I suppose.

[@s0lly]

Seems like we’re into similar experiments! Keep it up!

[@PezzzasWork]

You have a very nice channel! just subscribed :)

[@s0lly]

@@PezzzasWork cheers! what books have you read re. the physics videos you've done? They're awesome. I'm planning to get into that stuff over the next couple of months.

[@PezzzasWork]

Physics is so fun to play with :D I mostly used what I learned during my education but I ve read some nice articles here gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/series/how-to-create-a-custom-physics-engine--gamedev-12715 and you can also check the Verlet integration which allows you to quickly have nice things en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_integration (I am using it everywhere)

[@pratiklondhe5167]

Damn that's beautiful!

[@nicolasmaillouxorgue]

Wow, this is awesome. Congratulations

[@baonguyenanh5077]

Hey, this is awesome. Hmm what do you think of adding some evaporation for the paths, like the ants were likely to just follow the first paths and they didnt explore the fastest way, well the straight line for example. The density of the paths will determine whether ants follow it or not, thus end up with a faster way. Im looking forwards for that version.

[@user-wi8dy6yk7i]

Очень наглядная иллюстрация. Здорово. Лови лайк и коммент.

[@tissuepaper9962]

The pattern at 4:06 reminds me of a plasma ball. I would love to see one that's a perfect circle of food that is regenerating constantly and see if the ants would move around the same way the plasma in a plasma ball does.

[@carlosmspk]

I know you didn't ask, but it's a different case though. in plasma balls there is an ionization path that forms which has less electrical resistance, and so all electrons go through that same path until the path is so long that there is another path of ionization with lesser resistance that forms, while in this scenario that "other path" never forms as long as there are ants going through the old path. The new ionization path forming is visible when the little "sparks" of the plasma ball snap to a new place

[@tissuepaper9962]

@@carlosmspk Yes, but the random component of the movement of each ant (its "freedom" coefficient) should still cause the trails to move and shift spontaneously.

[@keyboardegg931]

the way they form many "feeler" trails, and the one that reaches the nest first is reinforced, reminds me of lightning

[@shreyashmulate1124]

Amazing work bro

[@n4trojan]

Great simulation!

[@user-jj1tp4qm8m]

I really love projects like these. They are so simple, yet highly interesting. Definitely inspiring me to code more and to try out new projects ;)

[@K-Anator]

Been a while since I've seen a name that breaks KZbin's CSS. Nice.

[@Puner54]

That is just plain COOL!!!

[@ananthkumargonibeed5041]

Beautiful video.

[@richardhorvatichfittrader]

Reminds me of synapses and neurotransmitters. 🔥🔥

[@AtomkeySinclair]

Reminds me of the birds routine from a visual perspective - not logic of course. Might be interesting to do a bees version - flower to hive and back soft of thing. Good scaling by the way. And thanks for the code as well. Bugs me (no pun) when someone has a good sim and doesn't post the code to play with.

[@zeerak4905]

amazing work

[@melissamarieperez]

IDK how I got here but this is so cool!

[@aaryamdev108]

This is beautiful.

[@RicardoOliveiraRGB]

Soooo good to watch

[@akiovzz1540]

thats why programming is beautiful

[@roccov3614]

Oddly satisfying to watch.

[@rainbowiaxiao6050]

this simulation is so cool!

[@quaidcarlobulloch9300]

Fascinating

[@micortes89]

That’s insane! Thanks for sharing

[@betterfly7398]

Very interesting work!

[@arjunsambhi5081]

Amazing work! I would love to learn how to code something like this. Were there any resources you used to teach yourself? What language(s) do you use? Are there specific packages required to implement the code visually? Any advice would be appreciated!!

[@sebastianagne1157]

4:14 its good that shape didnt have one more arm

[@leolaroca]

Awesome program!! Great work!! :)

[@rjeption]

This was kind of satisfying

[@alper_mulayim]

Great work !!!

[@redme3265]

Awesome work. But just as an idea, what if you could make so that the ants take the most efficient path of all, because I see in the video a lot of times in which ants take different paths to get to the same food, so wouldn't it be more logical to make them see what is the most efficient path of all.

[@navigosan4424]

That's really good, keep on!

[@thisismygascan4730]

elite algorithm for solving puzzles

[@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan]

pretty cool :D My "ant video" did not work that well with the KZbin encoding :D

[@migojolo2933]

It's beautiful

[@123TeeMee]

Cool and inspiring

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

Hey everyone, don't forget that Will Wright developed "Sim Ant" in 1993 (or thereabouts).

[@koraytecimer6080]

This video will get 1.2 million views minimum, great vid.

[@1XXXJoker]

Beautiful

[@andyroo24601]

Thanks, ants. THANTS

[@sergodobro2569]

So satisfying

[@CSSchool]

Very Creative Idea!

[@apexclips6919]

Nice vids !!!! Nice work, why the ants spread out suddenly at 3:42 on the left ?

[@HackerNomada]

THIS IS AWESOME. SHOULD GO VIRAL.... I hope so.

[@PezzzasWork]

Thank you! 6K views is already well beyond what I expected :D

[@dvd42_]

is this not what Sebastian League did? But u just did it earlier I think. Good work!