Temperature gets colder, people start using (once again) their heavy clothes, sky turns grey, raindrops start falling... Winter is here! And together with it, mountains get white, and ski resorts start working, preparing the slopes for future competitions.
Our offices are located far away from those mountains, but that did not stop us from creating our own Slalom model!
In this new game, you have several skiers who compete in a first race, with three principal charasteristics:
- velocity: it determines the velocity that each skier has to descend the slope.
- reaction: it represents the ability to change the direction.
- precision: a better precision gives the skier a better accuracy on aiming the following chek point.
After that first race, the best skiers remain and compete in the next stage, and new skiers are introduced, with their parameters defined as a combination of the previous winners. This way, you get an 'evolution' in the parameters, and after several stages you get a good combination of parameters, possibly a local optimum given the initial combination (of the first skiers).
In fact, if you keep running the model, you'll find that the best combination isn´t a trivial one, but instead it depends on how the circuit is made, and how the skier responds to it.
In fact, if you keep running the model, you'll find that the best combination isn´t a trivial one, but instead it depends on how the circuit is made, and how the skier responds to it.
One of the most attractive features of the model is the visualization of the skiers. The default visualization is from above, but pressing the green button you can see how the skis turn on each curve and, pressing the next green button, you might even see the skier from the front.
the link to run the model is the following one:
We hope you enjoy it!
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