On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:15:00PM +1000, mikeiscool wrote: > I'm willing to bet if you created flying ants they would adapt the > pheromone-drops so they linger in the air.
Um. Er. Have you heard of wind? The whole point of navigation is that your reference system doesn't have an unknown translation (drift) and nonlinear transformations (vortexes). Pheromones are only useful for gradient navigation, mostly in mating. Volatile trail markers mark terrain, not individuals. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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