swarm // network // time

Programming Questions

beatrous

in Programming Questions • 7 months ago

Hi, I am currently working on a swarm that seeks a point in a network of points. I was having trouble figuring out how to work with time. As in, I want the swarm to seek a point for a given amount of time and then move on to another point that is randomly selected. I have the code for seeking a random point in the network and I just need help understanding how to get it to seek a specific point for a given time then move to the next. any help would be awesome!!!!!!

three classes /// ted_network, ball, network

here is the code for seek in the ball class

void seek(){

int networkSize = networkCollection.size();

Network destination = (Network) networkCollection.get(int(random(networkSize - 1)));

// println(destination.loc);

Vec3D dif = destination.loc.sub(loc);

float distance = dif.magnitude();

dif.normalize();

dif.scaleSelf(0.05);

acc.addSelf(dif);

}

Thanks in advance

thomas

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tfguy44

Re: swarm // network // time

7 months ago

You can save a time to pick a new point and check if that time has come.

Here is an example of doing this to generate a new background color every 2 seconds.

color c = color(random(255),random(255),random(255));
int time = 2000;
void setup(){
size(220,220);
}
void draw(){
background(c);
if( millis() > time ){
c = color(random(255),random(255),random(255));
time = millis() + 2000;
}
}