EXPERIMENT 10● RUNNING
THE UNKNOWN
What happens when we stop giving the colony a goal?
Space, agents, pheromones and construction — but no objective. No endpoint, no target, no shortest path.
Question
What happens when we stop giving the colony a goal?
Conditions
110×64 open world with rocks, 700 ants, no food.
Rules
Ants wander, mark where they go, are mildly attracted to each other. Crowded cells slowly become structures.
Pass rule
None. There is no goal.
Control
None.
Limitations
Runs in your browser from a fixed seed; it restarts when you reload.
What does a colony do when nobody tells it what to do?