Class Notes: 9/29/10

Ideas for strategies?

Elba: Put 2 lights overlapping with the collector between them to guide the mosquitoes
David: When we have sub-areas, put the collector right near the gap to bring them to it
Yang Jian: Put lines along each obstacle
Neerja: Also need to focus heavily on the light frequency, not just the placement
Dan: Once you get the mosquitos in one area, it's easy to move them as a bunch, rather than moving them individually. The obstacles can be used to keep them in the bunch
Andrew: What if you have lights near each other and flick them really really fast, so that they go to some average location instead of to the light directly
Eva: As we have more and more lights, create an abstraction of light groups
Pilunchana: What if you had only one light?
Neetha: Place the lights in places that are less obscured by obstacles
Neerja: A lot of how long things take to run depends on the initial placement of the mosquitos
Archana: Place the lights in a zig-zag pattern to maximize the board coverage
Pilunchana: When there are a lot of obstacles, a zig-zag may be very useful
Neha: This doesn't work when you have very few lights
Nitin: Never put the collector out of the way
Elba: When you do the zig zag, they should overlap 100%


Deliverables for Weds:
1 - Come up with at least 1, preferable 2 boards per group, and a target number of lights for that board
2 - A player, which doesn't have to do anything super useful. Modify dumb player somehow interesting

Teams for Project 2:

Dan Iter	1
Zach Sheppard	1
Daniel Wilkey	1
John Graham	2
Jesse Bentert	2
Elizabeth Kierstead	2
Lauren Pully	3
Neetha Sebastian	3
Eva Sitaridi	3
Archana Balakrishnan	4
Neerja Pancholi	4
Flavio Palandri Antonelli	4
Dawei Shi	5
Neha Srivastava	5
Nitin Natarajan	5
Elba Garza	6
Andrew Shu	6
Pilunchana Kiatruangkrai	6
Blake Arnold	7
Yang Jian	7
Dan Federman	7

(Is there a bug causing the mosquitos to not fly straight? Can we add more contrast to the simulator?)