Project Ideas

Now

• My possible paths for immediate research (06/09):
  • reimplement Kashtan and Alon
    • to look at decay on scaled up systems
    • to scale up systems, and perhaps look at hierarchy
  • compare current evo with evo on independent legs, comparing mods
    • simple:calculate mods on arch004 bodies
  • evolve topologies on 6-leg agents
    • should I evolve six legs
    • should I change the perturbation?
  • Get Paul's agent going
    • Get integration code up
    • get some walkers evolved

Distant

• For complex pixel images, look at needlepoint patterns, Islamic tiles and time evolution of Wolfram's rules
• The process of development reduces modularity.

Past

• Small world is a 'best of both worlds' between diameter of a random graph and clustering coefficient of a lattice. It takes very few random rewirings to give a lattice a random-graph's diameter. Is there a relationship between this and the particularly small value that mutation rate takes in GAs? Mutation rate is often conceptualized as a jump in the solution space, so it may not be hard to establish a connection.