User talk:Nat

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2009/04/06 - 2009/06/20

MicroBot Wave Surfing

Anyone have 10TB of memory and hard disk to spare? I need that to perform my own microbot wave surfing. The large part of Wave Surfing is precise prediction, which nonetheless can't fit in micro. I wonder if I cached all the prediction and just access it at runtime. Now I roughly calculated. Let see, I restricted the location, absBearing, velocity and distance to all integer. Total possible location on the map is 764*564 = 430896 locations, multiply by 360 absBearing, ~950 distance, 17 velocity. Saves in short (2 bytes), contain x and y will result in around 764*564*360*950*17*2*2 = 10020917376000 B 9786052125 KiB = ~9,556,692 MiB = ~9,333 GiB = ~9.114 TiB.

Anyone have ideas how can I reduced those number? If I use 80*60 possible locations, 36 possible absBearing, 17 velocity and 19 possible distance, it still cost 43MB Note that this need to be preloaded into the robot, not calculating on-the-fly. span style="font-size:0.9em;color:darkgreen;">Nat | Talk » 05:17, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

I've done a fair amount of work with precalculated movement table things. I once got a precalculated movement table down to about 2MB, but that's still too big for ethical pre-loading, AND the optimizations it used took rather large codesize to turn into something usable in battle. I don't think you're going to be able make this realistically work Nat honestly. --Rednaxela 05:27, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

=( Well, thanks for the info. » Nat | Talk » 05:50, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

I'll let you borrow my tables when I get around to adding micros to my list ;) --Miked0801 09:02, 20 June 2009 (UTC)