Ant Colony Simulation with 5000 ants (2d).

Music is Psychic Magic by Unicorn Heads from the Youtube Audio Library.

#simulation #antcolony #ants

[TheMphc]

Hey, fun video :) Sorry people are only seeing it 10 months later! Sebastian Lague posted a new video on Ant and Slime simulations, so I think you should expect more traffic to this video.

[MojtabaParsa]

Youtube algorithm works pretty much like the ant colonization algorithm does with pheromones - a simulation of which you just watched. It shows random content to random people so much until a certain click through rate threshold is achieved. Then new people come, click and add to the reward of the model, reinforcing the pattern and hence making even more people to come and so on. If you've watched Sebastian's simulation to the end, it is naturally expected that you'll like this one too. So only a few random Sebastian's subscribers out of his thousands are enough to determine the potentially high click through rate between them and this video. The analogy also illustrates the final effect. For example, in the ant colonization, perfect straight lines from the nest to the resources are formed given enough time. In Youtube instance, perfect content over time are expected to be shown to the right people.

[AgabeGames]

I would love to see a simulation with the "food" irregularly spaced in blobs. Super cool video.

[tobenamed]

Probably the most interesting ant simulation I've been able to find so far

[piranapirate]

Ants are absolutely fascinating creatures. They have their own societies and ways of life that in some regards are remarkably similar to our own. Just watching them form trails entertains me so much and it’s the reason why I have 2 of my own colonies at the moments. Stunning

[commodoreNZ]

I'm mesmerized just watching this. Makes me want to tweak variables all night

[jonathanpowell]

This has to be the weirdest episode of AntsCanada

[tlgx]

Awesome video man, I already was addicted to watching my irl colony but now I also am addicted on YouTube lol

[cooper]

i got recommended this because i was playing spiral of ants on my piano literally 4 seconds ago.

[matbaker]

Really cool emergent behavior. Great video :)

[idjles]

those ants cannot see further than two pixels - that would be interesting to see

[RamiSlicer]

I find it really interesting how similar the behavior of ants looks to the behavior of electricity when sped up and visualized. If you compare this simulation to a slowed down video of a high-voltage arc you can see how both of them try to find something; in this case food and a conductor. Once they find it they quickly start refining their paths through some other process, like pheromones and plasma channels. If you visualize the virtual ants this way it looks like a plasma globe!

[flixtocicgaming]

im one of the first 1, 500 people to watch this!

[aarontheperson]

love the color scheme! looks like city cars at night or something

[krysmun]

This looks like it could be a fun little Simulator game to download and play in your spare time. just randomly place deposits of food, a bunch of ants, and see what happens.

[Daro-Wolfe]

Some very interesting chain reactions! Normally, the red trails lead blue ants and the blue trails lead red ants, creating a strong path of red and blue. If one of the trails fades, though, it creates a leak, where red or blue spills out everywhere. This creates large amounts of one color, drawing the other color to it and creating new paths, as well as cleaning up the mess. Very interesting!

[seguaye]

yo you didnt even show the whole thing?? I want to see my boys finish those piles of food :(

[manishti]

It is very interesting and helpful for me, who was working in ACO for a long time.

[majedalkhouri]

Claim youre ticket " here before 1m views"

[levipeters]

There’s probably Aliens out there making videos about “10, 000 human simulation”