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Flood Fill Path Finder
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By: Kevin Picone Added: July 31st, 2015
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Category: All,AI,Algorithm
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This code is a version of my flood fill path finding routine that was originally written way back in the late Amiga days, some 20 odd years ago now. The raw concept was inspired by the game Chaos Engine by the Bitmap Brothers, which featured a cooperative mode with a second AI player, even when playing in single player modes. What struck me was how well the AI player could fight and locate power ups, which seemed just like the a human player at the time. Today this kind of AI has is almost common place, but it seemed new back in the 16bit days. I don't actually know how Chaos Engine's AI algorithms work, just that it was seed for this idea. But like a lot of good ideas, this just ended up gathering dust on my legacy hard drive until now.
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Load Text File To Array
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By: Kevin Picone Added: May 28th, 2007
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Category: All,Algorithm,Strings
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This example looks the fastest way to load a text file into a string array in PlayBasic V1.62 and bellow. It includes two versions of the Loader function. The first reads the data to memory then manually grabs cuts and pastes this into the individual strings, the second read strings and throws them into the array directly. While the latter is less code, it's also dramatically slower! Around 50 times slower in fact. So if you need to load a text file into a string array, i'd recommend using the first version !
Note: I've include a second version of this bellow, LoadStringToArray_Faster.zip this version offers a few more methods on fast ways to load text files into an array.
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Pathfinding Algorithms
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By: various Added: May 1st, 2006
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Category: All,Algorithm
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These algorithms are not "my own work". I got them from an old article in Game Developer magazine, but the authors of the algorithms would be AI researchers whose names I don't know. Anyway, there is no copyright in an algorithm. Alex
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