ANT-Op: Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm is a simplified ant colony simulation package. ANT-Op comes with commented ant and pheromone scripts that will get you started on making your own Ant Colony project. ANT-Op also contains thorough documentation that will guide you through the fundamentals of Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm. The documentation also has a quick start and includes a Test Scene with a GUI.
Significant features are:
-Realistic ant-like behavior for creating wandering autonomous agents.
-GUI that lets you tweak and save variables for ants and pheromones to an XML Sheet.
-Sandbox environment that lets you spawn multiple agents.
-Heat-map and Trail-map functionalities to graph ant motions.
-A simple image parser to convert textures into terrains with food sources.
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