Did you ever finish this? I wann'a go!

"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> I have an idea for a game that povers can play where one matches wits
> against another for coming up with the best algorithm to solve the
> following "golf" hole-in-one problem:
> 
> 1. The course is an isosurface bounded by a sphere {0,600}
> 2. You start (tee off) at <-450, 5 units above surface, 0>
> 3. The hole is a cylinder of radius 15 cut into the surface at <450,0,0>
> 
>     or difference{
>                         [isosurface]
>                         cylinder {<450,-1000,0>,<450,1000,0>,15}
>                         }
> 4. Specify a vector to shoot your ball at, (a good first guess is
> <8,0,0>)
> 5. The pov program will then animate your ball as it bounces across the
> surface, and input back to your algorithm (INC) the closest it came to
> the hole. This information is in the form of the vector from the closest
> point on trajectory to the hole.
> 6. Your algorithm will use the information to choose a new trajectory.
> 7. The loop continues until one player's or the other's INC makes it in
> the hole, limited to say 20 or 50 tries...
> 8. Your ball must fall in by the, say, 250th frame or it is a
> stalemate.  Your ball must also bounce at least once!
> 
> Players could choose a course of nine holes to play, with things ranging
> from black holes to mindless putt-putt courses.
> An animation could then be made from the tee off, the hole, etc.
> The person who "wins" the most holes wins the match!
> 
> I've got the mechanics of the game down, as demonstrated in the
> following animation.  Here I had 200 balls of varying trajectories shot
> at the target, and they bounce around on the surface. One finds the
> hole!  The animation actually starts at the 150th frame.
> 
> Now I'm going to work on the feedback loop given to the INC and my first
> entry for the algorithm. At that time, I'll set up a web page with the
> files.
> 
> Would I just be playing this by myself?
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                    Name: bounce20.mpg
>    bounce20.mpg    Type: Mplayer2 File (video/mpeg)
>                Encoding: base64

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