A downloadable game for Windows and macOS

Collective Sort is a demo which shows how collective intelligence works, by simulating an ant farm where ants sort their eggs. 

Simple local rules resulting in an emergent organized structure : eggs are sorted by type.

In the environment, you have ants 🐜, red squares 🟥, and blue squares 🟦.

Each Ant 🐜 is doing the following :
- If it doesn’t carry a square 🟥, and it comes across a square 🟥, the less it crossed the same type of square, the most probable it picks-it up.
- If it carries a square 🟦, and it comes across a square 🟦, the more it crossed the same type of square, the most probable it drops it.

2 simple rules.

Collective intelligence is always surprising and it keeps me amazed.

Code is available here : https://github.com/WhitePuppyGD/CollectiveSort.git

Windows : tested on my Rog Ally, X to display/hide the menu, left stick to zoom in/out

Download

Download
Collective Sort.app.zip 53 MB
Download
Collective_Sort.zip 31 MB

Install instructions

Just unzip the file and let's go.

Click on the screen display the settings menu.

You can zoom-in/out with up/dow arrow keys.

Windows : tested on my Rog Ally, X to display/hide the menu, left stick to zoom in/out

Watch the ants and have fun. 

Be patient and the collective sort will emerge eventually.

I hope you will like it.

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