Ant Walking

An ant walking simulation using concepts of randomness at discipline Probability & Statistics

Python simulation

Design

The python version was wrote using pygame for handling the window events, graphics and logic. The coding-style was used Programming Object-Oriented and as more modular as possible. The script whose has the main-loop is: simulation.py. The other scripts was spited into:

• automaton.py
  • Our specific entities, as Automaton (base), Ant and Track
• base.py
  • Abstract class called Entity designed to inherit from automaton specific classes
• colors.py
  • Some colors constants, like WHITE and BLACK
• graphics.py
  • 8bit-like graphics for Ant and Track (the footprint)
• grid.py
  • about block size and the amount of blocks on screen (the size of matrix)
• motion.py
  • directions definitions, like UP, DOWN, RIGHT and LEFT.
  • All directions definitions are in function of BLOCKSIZE variable in grid.py
• main.py
  • a script helper, only calling the simulation.py AntSimulation.run()

Usage Instrunctions

To execute this you need Python3.x >= (3, 4) or Python2.x >= (2.6). Beyond that you need too the Pygame library. If you are using Ubuntu, you can type this:

• sudo apt-get install python-pygame or sudo pip install pygame

If pip was not installed try: sudo apt-get install python-pip.

If you are using Windows, you need eternal suffering. Ow, I'm kidding. You can try installing using the pre-compiled lib binaries here keeping attention with your python version.

After that, only execute at terminal in proper directory: python simulation.py