Ant Colony Simulation

This is an ant colony simulation, it internally uses kdtree and query caching, it's able to handle about 5k ants on the cpu.

Built with Rust and Bevy game engine

Demo

Here's the entire timelapse of the AI learning to drive

Timelapses with Approach 1

Usage

• Clone the repo

git clone git@github.com:bones-ai/rust-ants-colony-simulation.git
cd rust-ants-colony-simulation

• Run the simulation

cargo run --release

Configurations

• The project config file is located at src/configs.rs
• If all ants aren't forming a single trail even after a long time, try increasing ANTINITIALPH_STRENGTH in the configs to a greater value (exmaple: 40.0)