pico_playground

Teaching Demos:

• collision_1.p8: Illustration of algorithmic efficiency in game programming. All vs All collision in O(N^2). Having about 200 characters on the screen uses up to 0.3 of the available CPU.
• collision_2.p8: Illustration of algorithmic efficiency in game programming. Collision using vertical buckets in O(k * m^2). Even 300 characters on 10 buckets uses less than 0.05 of the available CPU.
• evolution_demo.p8: Illustration of artificial evolution constrained by resources. A grid world host individuals that multiply based on a frequency encoded in their genes. This frequency can mutate, and the world will quickly be dominated by individuals with high reproduction factors even without a explicit fitness function.