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[winner]

I just thought of something, this "sleep function" what if it sleeps a little longer on your computer than mine?  It would cause exactly the symptoms you are describing. Try commenting out where it gets called in main.  And it makes me fell kinda silly for spending all that time testing the same things over again.

[Outcast Orange]

Ooh! It works!
I can try adding color if you wish.
Or send you a small sample of color code.

I'll try the ants now.

[winner]

I feel very silly now. Thank you for your patience. Color would be great, could colorize the ants so I can see how it works?

[Hippoman]

SO can I have the latest code?

[winner]

Yes you may, I uploaded it to the first post.

[Outcast Orange]

It's all pasted at the top.

Just comment out sleep(); in main.

I've taken a crack at the ants.
They are industrious.
I wish there was some sort of randomly generating sugar,
 and the ants would try to find it / take it back with them.

[Hippoman]

Why is it that you still have srand48 in there?

[winner]

Why is it that you still have srand48 in there?

because I had forgotten to take it out of that version. Sugar would be easy/possible.

[edit] here it is, the ants find sugar and wander back to the nest to make more ants. (but at the same time I create a negative ant to keep it sustainable).

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#include <ctime>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <curses.h>
using namespace std;
/***************************/
const int Y=23;
const int X=40;

int ANT[Y][X];
int coolD[Y][X];
int direction[Y][X];
int sugar[Y][X];
bool WALL[Y][X];
char view[Y][X];

/***************************/
void init();
void sleep(int Time);
void print();
void crawl();
void coolDown();
int choose(int y, int x, int face);
/***************************/
int main()
{
nodelay(initscr(),1); // don't wait for user input
srand(time(NULL)); // initializes the random number generator
noecho(); // don't show typed characters on the screen
init();
clear();
while(1)
{
print();
crawl();
coolDown();
// sleep(65536); //keeps the game slow
}
echo(); // turn echoing back on before exiting
endwin(); // end curses control of the window
}
/***************************/
void init()
{
for(int y=0; y<Y; y++)
{
for(int x=0; x<X; x++)
{
view[y][x]='?';
ANT[y][x]=0;
WALL[y][x]=1;
direction[y][x]=4;
sugar[y][x]=!(rand()%Y);
}
}
ANT[Y/2][X/2]=32;
}
/***************************/
void sleep(int Time)
{
clock_t goal = Time + clock();
while (goal > clock());
}
/***************************/
void print()
{
for(int y=0; y<Y; y++)
{
for(int x=0; x<X; x++)
{
if(WALL[y][x]==1)
view[y][x]='#';
if(ANT[y][x]>0)
{
view[y][x]='*';
if(sugar[y][x]>0)
view[y][x]='&';
}
else if(sugar[y][x]>0)
view[y][x]='$';
}
}
view[Y/2][X/2]='o';
for(int y=0; y<Y; y++)
{
for(int x=0; x<X; x++)
{
mvaddch(y, x*2, view[y][x]);
view[y][x]=' ';
}
}
refresh(); // refresh the screen
}
/***************************/
void crawl()
{
int ant[Y][X];
int wall[Y][X];
for(int y=0; y<Y; y++)
{
for(int x=0; x<X; x++)
{
ant[y][x]=ANT[y][x];
wall[y][x]=WALL[y][x];
}
}
for(int y=0; y<Y; y++)
{
for(int x=0; x<X; x++)
{
int yy;
int xx;
for(int i=ANT[y][x]; i>1; i--) //if you are under another ant dig some more space
{
yy=y;
xx=x;
int temp=rand()%4;
if(temp==0)
yy=(y+Y-1)%Y;
else if(temp==1)
xx=(x+X-1)%X;
else if(temp==2)
yy=(y+1)%Y;
else if(temp==3)
xx=(x+1)%X;
ant[y][x]--;
ant[yy][xx]++;
wall[yy][xx]=0;
direction[yy][xx]=temp;
}
if(ANT[y][x]==1) //crawl somewhere
{
int temp=choose(y,x,direction[y][x]);
yy=y;
xx=x;
if(temp==0)
yy=(y+Y-1)%Y;
else if(temp==1)
xx=(x+X-1)%X;
else if(temp==2)
yy=(y+1)%Y;
else if(temp==3)
xx=(x+1)%X;
ant[y][x]--;
ant[yy][xx]++;
if(sugar[y][x]) //if there is sugar
{
temp=(temp+2)%4; //retrace your steps
sugar[y][x]--; //and push it along
sugar[yy][xx]++;
}
direction[yy][xx]=temp;
}
}
}
for(int y=0; y<Y; y++)
{
for(int x=0; x<X; x++)
{
ANT[y][x]=ant[y][x];
WALL[y][x]=wall[y][x];
}
}
}
/***************************/
void coolDown()
{
int c;
WALL[Y/2][X/2]=0;
if(sugar[Y/2][X/2])
{
sugar[rand()%Y][rand()%X]++; //add a bit of sugar
sugar[Y/2][X/2]--;
ANT[Y/2][X/2]++; //add a bit of ant
ANT[rand()%Y][rand()%X]--; //leave a trap for the ants
}
for(int y=0; y<Y; y++)
{
c=0;
for(int x=0; x<X; x++)
{
if(ANT[y][x])
coolD[y][x]=0;
else //if this trail isn't used
coolD[y][x]++;
if(coolD[y][x]==64) //block it off
WALL[y][x]=1;
if(WALL[y][x]) //count walls
c++;
}
if(c==0)
WALL[y][rand()%X]=1; //if there are none add one
}
for(int x=0; x<X; x++)
{
c=0;
for(int y=0; y<Y; y++)
{
if(WALL[y][x]) //count walls
c++;
}
if(c==0)
WALL[rand()%Y][x]=1; //if there are none add one
}
}
/***************************/
int choose(int y, int x, int face)
{
if(face==4)
face=rand()%4;
int c;
if(sugar[y][x]) //if you found sugar turn around
face=(face+2)%4;
for(int i=0; i<3; i++) //if there is a wall in the way try to find a different way
{
c=1;
if(face==0 && WALL[(y+Y-1)%Y][x]!=0)
face=(rand()%2)*2+1;
else if(face==1 && WALL[y][(x+X-1)%X]!=0)
face=(rand()%2)*2;
else if(face==2 && WALL[(y+1)%Y][x]!=0)
face=(rand()%2)*2+1;
else if(face==3 && WALL[y][(x+1)%X]!=0)
face=(rand()%2)*2;
else
c=0;
}
if(c==1)
face=4;
return face;
}
/***************************/


[Outcast Orange]

Just give the ants a percent chance of dying.
A very small percent chance.
Like 1/5000 or less.

Then, let it run for days,
 tweaking it after each session,
 until it is accurate like a clock. :)

[Hippoman]

I see this.

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[winner]

that means it works (ants=* sugar=$  ants carrying sugar=&)

[winner]

Ooh! It works!
I can try adding color if you wish.
Or send you a small sample of color code.

I'll try the ants now.

How is the color going?

[Outcast Orange]

Oh yeah, I almost forgot.
How about I send you a sample,
 and you implement it?

I'm sort of busy with school lately.
I only get a few spare hours during week days.

[winner]

Oh yeah, I almost forgot.
How about I send you a sample,
 and you implement it?

I'm sort of busy with school lately.
I only get a few spare hours during week days.

Sounds good to me.  If I fail I'll just bug you again on saturday.

[winner]

IT WORKS (without color but it works)

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