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{ Found this in the book *The Computational Beauty of Nature*. --drummyfish }
Resnick's termite is a simple [cellular automaton](cellular_automaton.md) simulating behavior of ants, demonstrating how even a very dumb behavior of a single agent can lead to higher collective intelligence once we increase the number of the agents. The simulation was made by Mitchel Resnick, the theme is similar to that of [Langton's ant](langtons_ant.md) but Resnick's termites are stochastic, [nondeterministic](determinism.md), they rather show how statistics/randomness in behavior help many ants build tunnels in sand. The game demonstrates how randomly scattered chips start getting chunked together and form tunnels once we let ants with extremely simple behavior work together on moving the chips. Besides this demonstration however there doesn't seem to be anything more interesting going on (at least until we start to modify and tweak the thing somehow).
Resnick's termite is a simple [cellular automaton](cellular_automaton.md) simulating behavior of ants, demonstrating how even a very dumb behavior of a single agent can lead to higher collective intelligence once we increase the number of the agents. The simulation was made by Mitchel Resnick, the theme is similar to that of [Langton's ant](langtons_ant.md) but Resnick's termites are [stochastic](stochasticism.md), [nondeterministic](determinism.md), they rather show how statistics/[randomness](randomness.md) in behavior help many ants build tunnels in sand. The game demonstrates how randomly scattered chips start getting chunked together and form tunnels once we let ants with extremely simple behavior work together on moving the chips. Besides this demonstration however there doesn't seem to be anything more interesting going on (at least until we start to modify and tweak the thing somehow).
The system is defined quite simply: we have a world made of cells, each cell can be either empty or have a wooden chip on it. In this world we have a number of ants, each of which behaves by the following [algorithm](algorithm.md):