User:Rednaxela

Background

I'm a Canadian, a computer engineering student in my final year of study, and a Robocode fan since late 2007. I check up on the wiki very often (some weeks, as often as 4 times a day) even when not actively robocoding and hope to one day have a robot at legendary as SandboxDT (yeah right... :P).

Robocode Research

Ongoing (somewhat?)

• "Least-Squares Auto-Segmenting Tree" based targeting... Might end up quite strong?
• SaphireSlippers - A plan for a kinda-GT surfing method. Should be more versatile/intelligent than most and easily adaptable to melee.
• SaphireEdge - Targeting experiments, such as sizable improvements to VCS, and new adaptive techniques against surfers.

Past

• Various on old wiki, will probably migrate eventually
• CarpetFinder - Graphs/research to find the optimal probabilities of changing direction!

Code Tidbits

• Various on old wiki, will probably migrate eventually
• FastTrig - A small class with some trig lookup tables.
• kD-Tree - A nice efficent kD-Tree.

Bots

Released bots

• LunarTwins - A team I made for TwinDuel. Instead of being two advanced targeting/dodging bots as is often the case in TwinDuel, it focuses on some tactics.
• RougeDC - A DynamicClustering bot I'm starting to test a few ideas (perhaps innovative ideas if I'm lucky).
• Woodchip - Very unoriginal code (borrows RaikoNano movement for one). Big "ProblemBot" for many strong bots due to it's strange gun though. Retired
• Polylunar - A team that extends LunarTwins tactics to the team roborumble. Working quite well but lots of room for improvement
• MiniSurreptitious - My mini melee bot with Minimum Risk Movement and Head-On Targeting.
• PolishedRuby - The strongest mirror movement bot ever (as of Dec 2008) ;-)
• Carpet - A micro bot that hopes to take a throne.
• Glacier - My new melee bot, hoping to beat Shadow and give Diamond and Portia some competition. Eventually planning to make into a strong 1v1 competitor as well.
• Midboss - An experiment, starting with what happens if I put the SaphireEdge Gun onto RougeDC's movement.

Unreleased Vaporware

• Mervin - My first moronic attempt at robocoding. It was kind of modular but very sloppy, and consisted of not much more than a circular movement predictor and a hacked up mostly-perpendicular movement pattern.
• Gwynfor - My second attempt at robocoding, which last served at a platform for testing my "Neural Pattern Matching" idea. I made a lot of different features in Gwynfor over time but nothing noteworthy and the code ended up a sloppy mess.
• TangoDeLaLuna - An experimental close-range fighter. Some interesting code is there, but much work is needed before it amounts to anything.

Figments of my Imagination

Probably reality within the next year

• UndyingTiger - Extremely agressive survivalist/PL bot based on same framework as SapphiricMuse
• SapphiricMuse - Overall strong bot to use the fruitation of SaphireEdge and SaphireSlippers
• Fleck - A NanoBot coded in java assembly to have more direct control of how the codesize is used. Might just be my own take on the 'NanoSurfer' concept too...

Who knows when/if it'll happen

• PolishedSaphire - A mirror even better than PolishedRuby
• WaveBumper - A surfing Rambot? Surely I wouldn't be so crazy... ;-)
• TortoiseTwins - An idea for a TwinDuel team, experimenting with BulletShielding in a TwinDuel setting.
•  ??? - A bot that uses prerecorded 'dances'... mostly fun but might be strong-ish too...

Goals

• Get SaphireEdge to beat up everything, even surfers, reeeeeaaal good
• Make SaphireSlippers into a strong movment instead of some early prototype code

Comments/Conversation

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