Project 1 - Prototyping Representation

Summary

The bee diversity has declined massively over the last couple of years, causing them to be endangered. Our planet simply can not survive without bees and it is up to us to save them. By creating this bee natural system I hope to bring more awareness to the extinction of bees.

In the beginning I had envisioned incorporating a bee collecting honey from a flower and then taking the honey back to the beehive. Although since then I have expanded on the idea and have incorporated multiple flowers that multiple bees will come out of the beehive to collect and bring back to the beehive making it bigger, each time more honey is collected.

The diagram above was very helpful in helping me to understand which functions each object would have and how they would all be intertwined which each other.

Although through out the way I did come into some problems, but with some help from online resources I was able to debug and create a bee catching flower for honey system. These different formulas that helped me to do what I needed to complete the bee natural system have been posted down below, to show and explain the complexity of it.

So, in order for me to make the bee natural system more complex I wanted to be able to add more flowers for the bees to catch rather than a set amount. By pressing the space bar you can add as many flowers as the user wants. I also wanted to make it more interesting by creating multiple bees going after the flowers and by pressing the mouse it creates multiple bees that will go and attack the flowers.

For the future, I want to create different types of flowers that would also give each bee a different honey count. Possibly making it an interactive game that scores how much honey bees can collect within a certain time limit.

Code Examples:

      // adds honey when bee brings flower back

      void addHoney() {

      this.honeyCount++;

      this.size += 0.5;}
    

      // caculates distance from bee to flower

      double distanceToFlower(Sunflower flower) {

      return Math.sqrt((this.position.x - flower.position.x) * (this.position.x - 
      flower.position.x) + (this.position.y - flower.position.y) * (this.position.y - 
      flower.position.y));}
    

      // if bee is not busy, go to closest flower and set as new target

      if (flowers.size() != 0 && !busy) {

      print("seeking\n");

      if (target == null) {

      Sunflower closest = flowers.get(0);

      double closestDist = Double.MAX_VALUE;}}