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I'm sure any programmer who's spent enough time watching spiders build their webs must have given some thought to the algorithmic simulation of spiderweb constr

I'm sure any programmer who's spent enough time watching spiders build their webs must have given some thought to the algorithmic simulation of spiderweb construction. Different species create different structures, and some of them are excellent architects. I remember scouring the web for any programs doing this, and there are definitely research papers and MATLAB or similar implementations, but surprisingly little outside of that. It seems like a fun little project to explore this in a more accessible language/platform, eg. in-browser.

jonbaer 8y ago
Some interesting papers @ http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jer/spider.pdf http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jer/spider.pdf + https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/thesis/online/IM000101.pdf https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/publications/thesis/online/IM000101... - worth exploring, interesting to think they optimize on their own ... https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8038 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8038