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Can you really call them agents if they are calculated on GPU? I always assumed that using GPU would reduce them to particles (colour + position). They were pro

by M8 12y ago

Can you really call them agents if they are calculated on GPU? I always assumed that using GPU would reduce them to particles (colour + position). They were probably stored in a huge array as values rather than a linked list of objects?

14113 12y ago
They were stored as values in a huge array. I fail, however, to see how that causes them to be distinguished from "agents"? Surely they still fulfil the properties required to be "agents" in an abstract sense? They gather information about their environment (the positions of other agents), deliberate (work out where to move to next), and then act (change their position). That process is entirely abstracted from the storage method of the agent data itself!
- M8 12y ago
  What would happen if you need to add more properties/state to agents?
  - 14113 12y ago
    You'd have to change the program? Each agent was stored as a C structure - so adding further information to that would be trivial.