Project Blood Cells NPC

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Student Info

• Name: Jackson Heim
• Section: 02

Simulation Design

A bunch of different blood cells cells working and moving around in a petri dish. White blood cells attack the foreign objects (which in this case are the pollen cells), and red blood cells move around at random.

Controls

• User can click the screen to add new cells to the pretri dish
  • Clicking the right mouse button adds pollen cells that the white blood cells search out and attack.
  • Clicking the left mouse button adds more red blood cells that just move around randomly.

Agent 1:Red blood cell

A red blood cell that floats around randomly and avoids obstacles.

Steering Behaviors

• Wander: wanders around aimlessly using wander

• Stay in bounds: Stays inside the petri dish

  • If it gets too close to the edge, it will move back to the center.
  • If this does not happen fast enough, it will bounce off the edge.

• Obstacles - Avoids blood clots with obstacle avoidance

• Seperation - Seperates from all other agents using speration

Agent 2: White blood cell

Cells that wander around by themselves until they come acorss a foreign object to seek out and kill.

Wandering

Objective: Wanders around the petri dish aimlessly.

Steering Behaviors

• Wander: Wanders around aimlessly using wander

• Stay in bounds: Stays inside the petri dish

  • If it gets too close to the edge, it will move back to the center.
  • If this does not happen fast enough, it will bounce off the edge.

• Obstacles - Avoids blood clots with obstacle avoidance

• Seperation - Seperates from all other agents using speration

State Transistions

• When there are no pollen cells, it will wander.

Seeking

Objective: Seeks out and kills the pollen cells it sees.

Steering Behaviors

• Seek: Chases the pollen cells

  • Seeks nearest pollen cell to its current loaction
  • Once caught it kills it

• Stay in bounds: Stays inside the petri dish

  • If it gets too close to the edge, it will move back to the center.
  • If this does not happen fast enough, it will bounce off the edge.

• Obstacles - Avoids blood clots with obstacle avoidance

• Seperation - Seperates from all other agents using speration

State Transistions

If there are any pollen cells spawned in, it will seek them out and chase them.

Agent 3: Pollen cell

Foreign objects that wander around the pretri dish and flee from the white blood cells.

Wandering

Objective: Wanders around the petri dish aimlessly.

Steering Behaviors

• Wander: Wanders around aimlessly using wander

• Stay in bounds: Stays inside the petri dish

  • If it gets too close to the edge, it will move back to the center.
  • If this does not happen fast enough, it will bounce off the edge.

• Obstacles - Avoids blood clots with obstacle avoidance

• Seperation - Seperates from all other agents using speration

State Transistions

• When it is far away from all whote blood cells, it just wanders.

Fleeing

Objective: Runs away from the white blood cells and tries to survive.

Steering Behaviors

• Flee: Runs away from white blood cells

  • Flees from the nearest white blood cell
  • Once caught it gets killed

• Stay in bounds: Stays inside the petri dish

  • If it gets too close to the edge, it will move back to the center.
  • If this does not happen fast enough, it will bounce off the edge.

• Obstacles - Avoids blood clots with obstacle avoidance

• Seperation - Seperates from all other agents using speration

State Transistions

When it is within a certain range of a white blood cell, it flees from the cell.

Sources

• https://www.piskelapp.com/ : used to make all the assets

Make it Your Own

• I drew all my own assets for the cells and blood clots and animate the white blood cell.
• Also added states to the white blood cell and pollen cell.

Known Issues

Sometimes the cells get stuck on the blood clots and just spin around. This happens to the white blood cells a lot. The pollen cells also sometimes go right through the obstacle when they are running from the white blood cells.

Requirements not completed

I think I did them all. At least I hope so.