Mixed Day

5th May, 2007

Ok, so its my brother’s 18th birthday which means that instead of revising for the AI exam I have plenty of distractions.

Some good news in the form of our idat205 Eden Game has been uploaded to the Eden Project’s website, and has been featured in a BBC news press release!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/6629765.stm

 

New Website Design in production

Meanwhile I am working to produce a new website design, which I am happy fulfils every intricate criteria I am striving for, and replace the current site which was a result of mashed together previous attempts with the aim of trying to keep everything active. So essentially EVERYTHING needs to be replaced and unified. This is of course while I am heating up the search for a placement.

Other Stuff

Seems relevant to the impacts of digital media as studied in idat203 –
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6627135.stm

An Update

27th April, 2007

Having worked right up to the deadline on the final courseworks for idat203 and 205 I’m pretty glad thats all over. And some good feedback from the few results I’ve had back.

AI Coursework

Exercise 4 – Tic Tac Toe AI – Play this simple noughts and crosses game against either an intelligent computer player, or one who choses moves at random.

Exercise 2/3 – A-Life and Genetic Algorithms – Demonstrates the evolution of insect-like organisms through the process of selection and mutation. Start by clicking ‘Initialise’ and then trying to catch 4 parent organisms before clicking ‘Replicate’ and watching the outcome of your selection.

Exercise 1 – Flash Arrays for Vectors and Matrices – A demonstration of the use of vectors and matrices, an important component of AI.

Some AI Work, and a lot of Flash

4th March, 2007

Artificial Intelligence

All my AI work can be found at http://www.srjm.co.uk/portfolio/aint204/

4th Exercise

Play against a computer player in a game of tictactoe with AI enabled or disabled.

2nd/3rd Exercise

Developing a selection and mutation system.

i-Dat 2007

8th January, 2007

Introduction to AI

This module actually looks like hell of a breath of fresh air compared to recent drudging through essays and programming. Taught by Plymouth’s professor of AI, Angelo Cangelosi.

Essay

Using a touch sensitive screen to select an area to zoom to within my camera interface.