AUTONOMOUS KATAMARI-ROOMBA CLEAN SWEEPS IN 71 MINUTES

As part of his ‘PSX’ interface project that “disrupts conventional game interaction rituals,” Julian Bleecker has created a custom PS2 dongle and script and dedicated himself to answering an important question:

I decided to do an absolutely crucial bit of game science. Something that I am entirely sure is mulled over constantly, but never properly investigated. The question is but stated thusly: how long would it take the Little Prince to roll up an entire room based on a random path algorithm?

His result, via the video above, clocks in at just over 71 minutes, after a semi-excruciating period of consistently missing the final 10 objects (which Bleecker mercifully manually grabs in the end). The full explanation and code are available at the link.

Autonomous Game Controllers [Near Future Laboratory, thanks Tom!]

Previously:
Manifesto for "blogjects" — objects that blog – Boing Boing