{"id":316,"date":"2008-11-05T14:50:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/11\/05\/contest-army-ants\/"},"modified":"2016-01-14T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T21:41:09","slug":"contest-army-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/11\/05\/contest-army-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest: Army Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the MATLAB contest, I am not sure if it is more fun to play the contest or to help design and administer it. Either way, I am looking forward to seeing a lot of really great algorithms from people.<\/p>\n<p>This contest is a revisiting of the popular ants contest. However, your red ants are living in a bigger world now. They have a neighbor that has the same goal as them: bring the sugar home. This leads to a different kind of environment where the sugar you are trying to gather is also desired by the &#8216;house team&#8217;: the black ants. Do you let the black ants move &#8216;your&#8217; sugar unchecked, or do you use your new attack power to kill them? The black ants are singing &#8220;We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill!&#8221;, which do you believe?<\/p>\n<p>One major change in this contest is that each day the red ant team that is winning will become &#8216;King of the anthill&#8217;. That is right, they become the black ants, and thus become the house team. Who will get that honor, and who can keep it the longest?<\/p>\n<p>Knowing what the new contest is, you can see that <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/09\/25\/puzzler-cleverness-needed\/\">this puzzler<\/a>: was actually my way of getting people to help develop <em>my<\/em> entry for the MathWorks internal version of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s get started with the 18th MATLAB programing contest: Army Ants!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/..\/images\/videos\/2008\/11\/ant-map1.png\" alt=\"MATLAB contest\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the MATLAB contest, I am not sure if it is more fun to play the contest or to help design and administer it. Either way, I am looking forward to seeing a lot of really great algorithms from&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/11\/05\/contest-army-ants\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}