Saturday, February 18, 2012

Starting Again

So my senior project was finished and I'm very happy about it! It was a really fun experience.  However, of course it was not as finished as I would have liked.  So now that I've settled into this semester, it's time for me to go back and continue to work on this project.

First a re-cap:
This video shows the most recent results of the project.

I was able to get some really basic reactions from the agents based on the acceleration of the user's hands.
What I would like to do is to get this aspect debugged and fully functional so that when the user moves their hand in a certain direction, the agents will move in that direction at a speed based on the speed of the hand.  To make it clear, they should not just follow the hand, but move in the general direction of the hand.

This control feature would be really nice with the option to set characteristics to the group of agents, because the user could set the characteristics then send the group off in a certain direction and watch what happens as the agents run into obstacles or other agents.  The user would be freed up from having to control these agents directly and could work with a different group, select individuals, or use different controls.

I would also like to get behavioral animation and dynamics working between the agents, but there are some issues going in that need to be addressed which I will get to later.

That's it for now,
Thanks!
Marley

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