New Gun

For both movement and targeting in XanderCat, I use a KDTree to store both hits (bullet hits target) and visits (where robot at time bullet would have hit whether it did or didn't). When moving or aiming, a certain number of hits are pulled from the tree using KNN search. Those hits are then dumped into a factor array (with a little smoothing for movement but not targeting). And then the lowest (or highest, for targeting) area of the factor array is where I drive to (or shoot). Visits are only used in my movement, and only when my flattener is active. When talking DC and VCS, what would you consider this to be? I've always thought of it as something of a hybrid, but I don't know if I clearly understand how you all define these terms.

I'd definitely call that KNN (or DC as we do on the wiki), you are just using a discrete kernel density estimation to find your peaks/troughs. Your algorithm would give identical results if, instead of smoothing into bins, you reversed the loops and checked each angle for a 'score' by evaluating its nearness to previous data, which is just discrete kernel density estimation through sampling. VCS refers to the way that the data is gathered in the first place, smoothing the data into segmented bins as it is collected.

DrussGT doesn't use bins until it's time to surf (like you), instead just keeping a list of the last 2*rollingDepth hits for that buffer, but I did the math so that it is functionally equivalent with rolloff and weights, and as such I still call it VCS.