Nodebox compatiblity milestone - Evolution example runs unmodified

[Stuart Axon]

Hi,
   Back in 2008 when I first saw nodebox, it was the Evolution example
http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Evolution that made me sad I couldn't 
nodebox on linux...  luckily shoebot was here, though it couldn't run
that particular example yet.. it had puredata integration, a gui and
some nice drawing examples..

Today though, evolution runs completely unmodified on shoebot !



Downloading and running it
sbot -w evolution.py
See's little beasties battle it out for survival (possibly too fast in shoebot)
- for more information read the page on the nodebox site.


Luckily it just involved uncommenting some of our cmyk code, a little work
+ adding a little more to our nodebox compatiblity code (see nodebox-lib).


Obligatory pic..
http://imgur.com/BKnZgEd



Known bugs:
Running this did expose a memory leak (issue 33) - also I'm not sure
if colours are 100% correct yet.


TL;DR
The evolution nodebox bot is pretty cool, and see's little creatures battle
it out to survive in the genepool - it runs a little quickly in shoebot.

Have fun -
S++

[francesco fantoni]

hey Stuart,
that's awesome! great job!

best, francesco

Post by Stuart Axon
Hi,
Back in 2008 when I first saw nodebox, it was the Evolution example
http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Evolution that made me sad I
couldn't
nodebox on linux... luckily shoebot was here, though it couldn't run
that particular example yet.. it had puredata integration, a gui and
some nice drawing examples..
Today though, evolution runs completely unmodified on shoebot !
Downloading and running it
sbot -w evolution.py
See's little beasties battle it out for survival (possibly too fast in shoebot)
- for more information read the page on the nodebox site.
Luckily it just involved uncommenting some of our cmyk code, a little work
+ adding a little more to our nodebox compatiblity code (see
nodebox-lib).
Obligatory pic..
http://imgur.com/BKnZgEd
Running this did expose a memory leak (issue 33) - also I'm not sure
if colours are 100% correct yet.
TL;DR
The evolution nodebox bot is pretty cool, and see's little creatures battle
it out to survive in the genepool - it runs a little quickly in shoebot.
Have fun -
S++
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[Stuart Axon]

Cheers. ..  

I will try and put up a more detailed blog post in next few days..

If anyone has a mac to run nodebox on it might be worth trying to spot any differences (I'm not sure the
bit where the creatures rotate at the beginning is correct for instance)..

 
S++

Post by Stuart Axon
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Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [shoebot-devel] Nodebox compatiblity milestone - Evolution example runs unmodified
hey Stuart,
that's awesome! great job!
best, francesco

Hi,
    Back in 2008 when I first saw nodebox, it was the Evolution example
http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Evolution that made me sad I
couldn't
nodebox on linux...  luckily shoebot was here, though it couldn't run
that particular example yet.. it had puredata integration, a gui and
some nice drawing examples..
Today though, evolution runs completely unmodified on shoebot !
Downloading and running it
sbot -w evolution.py
See's little beasties battle it out for survival (possibly too fast in shoebot)
- for more information read the page on the nodebox site.
Luckily it just involved uncommenting some of our cmyk code, a little work
+ adding a little more to our nodebox compatiblity code (see
nodebox-lib).
Obligatory pic..
http://imgur.com/BKnZgEd
Running this did expose a memory leak (issue 33) - also I'm not sure
if colours are 100% correct yet.
TL;DR
The evolution nodebox bot is pretty cool, and see's little creatures battle
it out to survive in the genepool - it runs a little quickly in shoebot.
Have fun -
S++
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[Dave Crossland]

WOW! Great work Stuart, that's fantastic! :)