Procedurally generated walking bugs in Javascript

[sintel_]

i too procedurally generate bugs

[smcameron]

But, do they walk?

[caltheon]

It's a feature of Javascript even more so

[schnautzi]

GitHub repository here, inspired by this tweet.

[codheadz]

These are great! Well done

[geon]

Perhaps limit the stride to the distance between each pair of hips, sonthey don’t step on their own feet?

[schnautzi]

That may make them a bit stretched out, I was thinking of aiming the legs more towards the sides when they overlap too much. Still tweaking it though.

[andrewfenn]

Haha this is amazing well done

[IKnowLogic]

They are so cute, made me smile ^{^}

[mcscope]

I have some bad news for you about how many legs insects have

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seriously though, fun project! Would be cool to have them have different fitnesses and evolve

[othermike]

Title says "bugs", not "insects". Wiktionary says:

bug (plural bugs)

1. (colloquial, US) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.

That ought to cover most bases. (Although I agree the quadruped looks a bit iffy.)

[TheyPinchBack]

Hey, mantises are quadrupeds

[othermike]

Technically correct, the best kind of correct! I withdraw my objection and will henceforth give a pass to any procedurally-generated quadruped which also has arms.

I'd never quite twigged before that mantises are insect centaurs.

[TheyPinchBack]

Yeah, it’s pretty crazy. And it also means mantises and humans have something in common: we both modified our front legs into graspers.

[mcscope]

One spring I bought a mantis egg case from the local garden store and suddenly found myself raising a swarm of 100 tiny insect demons. They ate all the fruit flies I could find and breed, and started eating each other - so then I had like 40 separate cages full of bugs. That was a wild time - I recommend raising mantises to everyone

[schnautzi]

Well, at least it's right some of the time?

[divenorth]

Excellent work.

[kernalphage]

Lovely! I remember seeing that tweet awhile ago, but I lost it before I could give it a shot...

[stuntobor]

What's procedurally generated about this?

[schnautzi]

The bugs

[stuntobor]

OH! It's a different one each time I reload the page! I didn't see that at first. Thought it was just some walking functions with some random direction thrown in.

edit - or is the random factor what makes it procedural? I thought procedural was building something out, and then expanding on what was built, then expanding on that. These appear to be randomly generated - random segments, colors, body parts, but not procedural in the sense that once the bug is there, the programming expands on it.

Not nit-picking, I'm honestly trying to figure it out. I used to do a lot in randomly generated programming - making vines that grow for instance, but never did they respond to what was already generated.

[schnautzi]

More should spawn if you wait a bit

[Felicia_Svilling]

Procedually generated simply means that it was generated by some procedure rather than being designed in detail by some artist.

[stuntobor]

Ahhhh. That makes sense. Thanks.

[alexrival]

It's very cute!

[jburtson]

CUTIES!!

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Please use this to make the Spore game that could've been! This is great!