Sandeep Jagadish Pathak wrote: > Tha sounds fine. Till now I had read through the essays and the docs > only. Now am diving into the code also, starting off with 4Play (great > explanatory comments there). Once am through that, I'll try to > provide/add similar level info for the pending projects also. So just > give me some time to fully understand the 4Play code. > > Also, any new idea/thought is always welcome. Would love to start > something from the scratch. So please let me know if you have > something lying around that I can also ponder upon. > > And yes, I have been following the discussions on the mail lately > after subscribing to it, specifically the mail related to the > 'Motivation'. I must say that it was like I was reading my own > thoughts aloud. The reason I am craving to start a project etc. is to > keep my motivation up so that I have something useful to feed my mind, > which tends to grow pall with the repetitive office work. > > So, any new ideas will be great! There was a thread called "The Next Big Thing" in which we discussed various possibilities for future work. You can find it in the archives. There were about 60 posts, beginning in April of this year.
Since you know C++ you might like to work with an existing simulator which could both simulate and animate some kind of robot or aerospace vehicle. There are several of these in the public domain. The idea is that we would provide an ANN that controls the thing and produces some kind of behaviour. The existing software that we would use would provide the simulation of the physics involved, and also illustrate the behavior with graphical animation. I know of two examples of that type of thing. One is called jsbsim; it simulates flying things. The other is ODE for Open Dynamics Engine. It is for linked mechanical things, like a robot. How about a bicycle? Maybe we can have bicycle races? (Have you seen RARS - the Robot Auto Racing Simulator? - that's a creation of mine from 1995 that I'm proud of.) m -- I'm proud of http://ANNEvolve.sourceforge.net. If you want to write software, or articles, or do testing or research for ANNEvolve, let me know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
