Challenges

• Evolve creatures which move fast in the obstacles world. Use the world map to create blocks, and then evolve creatures in a distance-oriented optimization. Creatures are expected to either have an obstacle-robust design, or use Touch sensors to avoid walls.
• Define alternative experiment definitions. Some ideas:
• undirected evolution,
• fight for resources (arena),
• pursuit,
• cooperation or competition
• Build a humanoid creature.
• Create/evolve an organism which is capable of movement towards energy sources (detected with a "S" receptor).
• For users interested in computer graphics: define alternative visualization styles for OpenGL (*.style file). See the "3dobj" subdirectory for style samples. Here are some ideas:
• limbs.style: joints as arms, legs, etc.
• sport.style: for the race.show, for example
• party.style: for the dance.show, for example
• tennis.style (tennis court, energy balls as tennis balls, T receptors as tennis rackets)
• agriculture.style (fields, harvest time, crop, sheaves, polls, ploughed areas etc.)
Good style supports three world types (flat/blocks/smooth), three kinds of world boundaries (none/fence/teleport), water, styled parts, joints and neurons, and visualizes properties of parts and joints.
• For users interested in computer graphics: define alternative visualization schemes (see above) for POV-Ray (*.inc file). The default "framsticks-standard.inc" file is an example.
• Define alternative Framsticks Theater shows. For example, a "domino" show where many creatures arranged along a path start moving after they are touched by predecessors. A lot of improvement is also possible in the existing show scripts.
• Build/evolve your creature for the deathmatch challenge.