Talk:Maximum Escape Angle

I feel weird about not crediting Albert for the text on this page. I like removing sigs from topic pages, in general, but should we maybe add a "Credits" Subheading to pages like this to recognize the original / primary author? --Voidious 00:38, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

It is a wiki... the point is to have no designated author. It is probably best to just credit original authors on the discussion pages when moving the old articles. The exception would be archived articles that are no longer active, which should be kept in their original form. That NanoLinearTargeting page, for example, was still active and useful, so it had to be wikified. I'll put a credit to Kev on the discussion page for Linear Targeting. -- AaronR 00:45, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I tend to agree with you, but the fact that we did have the credits there for so long makes is what makes me think twice. Putting a credit note on the Talk pages seems cool with me; I definitely think the pages look cleaner without sigs cluttering it up. --Voidious 01:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey AaronR - I liked your clean-up of this page, except for one thing: why replace the semi-colon as super-comma stuff near the top of the article? I think it's a little more clear that way, as long as you know that semi-colons can be used that way (in place of a comma for lists of lists). =) --Voidious 01:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

While semicolons can be used in certain contexts for lists of lists, they don't work grammatically in exactly this case. I'll try to edit it to be more clear. -- AaronR 01:25, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Deleting my previous comment here. I still am not convinced my usage was incorrect, but I prefer the phrasing we have now, in any case. =) --Voidious 01:35, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Imperfect Animated GIF of MAE

The main lack in this is that the robot never tries to turn in the opposite direction once it has started turning in the one direction. Those side wedges might be filled in a bit if it did. This shows it at different initial velocities, and is projecting ahead 24 turns.

http://www.csdgn.org/files/MAE.gif

— Chase-san 08:29, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, interesting. I was doing some work on a movement table system here, and I though I'd compare it's movement paths when your picture there (for initial velocity of 8)

http://rednaxela-robocode.dyndns.org/data/MEA2.png

It seems that turning in the opposite direction once turning is not required to fill in those wedges. Simply slowing while early in the turn (the cyan section) works.

--Rednaxela 03:15, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Unfortunately this still doesn't settle the argument of whether slowing down during turns helps achieve better MEAs since in our prediction algorithms we generally are allowed to turn back in the other direction =) --Skilgannon 06:02, 22 February 2011 (UTC)