NAME
termites.pl - Artificial Termites
SYNOPSIS
termites.pl [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
This script runs the Artificial Termites simulation provided by the Perl module AI::Termites.
The accepted options are as follows:
- --dim N
-
Number of dimensions of the world. Defaults to 2.
- --world-size SIZE
-
The size of the world box, Defaults to 1.
- --specie NAME
-
The name of the artificial termite subspecie to simulate.
The currently accepted ones are
LoginquitasPostulo
,NemusNidor
,VicinusOcurro
andPeractioBaro
. - --wood N
-
Piezes of wood in the simulated world.
- --termites N
-
Number of termites in the simulated world.
- --near SIZE
-
The size of the boll that a termite will consider as its neighborhood. Defaults to 1/50 of the world size.
Every specie uses this parameter in a different way.
- --taken
-
Represent on the drawings the pieces of wood that are actually being moved by some termite.
- --output FILENAME
-
Prefix used for the file names of the generated PNGs. Defaults to
output
. - --one-of N
-
Save to file one of every N frames. Defaults to 5.
- --top N
-
Exit the application when the number of iterations reachs the given number.
- --width W
-
Number of pixels of the generated images. Defaults to 1024.
- --truecolor
-
Generate TrueColor PNGs.
The default PNG format uses a 8bit indexed palette that is not correctly handled by some programs as ffmpeg or mencoder.
EXAMPLES
termites.pl --specie=VicinusOccurro --truecolor --output vo --one-of 1 --top 10000
termites.pl --specie=PeractioBaro --one-of 10 --near 0.02 --taken --dim 2 \
--truecolor --output pb --top 40000
MAKING MOVIES
In order to convert a set of PNGs into an animation, ffmpeg can be used as follows:
ffmpeg -i output-%05d.png video.mpg
SEE ALSO
The idea about artificial termites comes from the book "Adventures in Modeling" by Vanessa Stevens Colella, Eric Klopfer and Mitchel Resnick (http://education.mit.edu/starlogo/adventures/).
An online Artificial Termites simulation can be found here: http://www.permutationcity.co.uk/alife/termites.html.
The origin of this module lies on the following PerlMonks post: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=908684.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2011 by Salvador Fandiño, <sfandino@yahoo.com>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.12.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.