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Item The Soprants: conceptual and technical framework for a 3D interactive video game(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30) Nakamura, TatsuyaThis thesis covers the design of an interactive 3D video game with certain unique features and demonstrates the design through a prototype implementation. Insect characters are modeled after human characters and set in a game story. The ants in the game behave similar to leaf-cutter ants. A 3D game environment based on a real ant colony nest is created and used for prototyping the game. Insect behavior based on behavior of real ants is implemented in an interactive 3D environment. The cinematic scenes and the trailer of the game are created to present the game story.Item Visualization of Ant Pheromone Based Path Following(2010-07-14) Sutherland, Benjamin T.This thesis develops a simulation and visualization of a path finding algorithm based on ant pheromone paths created in 3D space. The simulation is useful as a demonstration of a heuristic approach to NP-complete problems and as an educational tool for demonstrating how ant colonies gather food. An interactive real time 3D visualization is built on top of the simulation. A graphical user interface layer allows user interaction with the simulation and visualization.