Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03391
To: Ian Bernstein ian@beam-online.com
From: Brian beamguy@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:30:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Ants, Web site & (Ian?)
I beloieve the feelers are the phermone (sp?)
receptors. That's how they comunicated- by various
odors- and the antenae pick up those scents. Please
correct me if I'm wrong but I did see some show about
antrs and i think that's what it said.Robotic
odors...humm i do recall a project on an electronic
nose.
--- Ian Bernstein wrote:
> Hey, I was just thinking about how I would go about
> recreating an ant. I
> don't know allot about them but I was wondering
> about one thing in
> particular. Ants have eyes right. And feelers. If
> they have eyes why do
> the need feelers? (because they don't have very good
> vision right?) But
> if they don't have very good vision why don't they
> just have feelers and
> no eyes? If they do have good eyesight then why do
> the have feelers? How
> do they communicate with each other?
> I know it would be nearly impossible to recreate all
> the features of an
> ant but the replies I get from this will hopefully
> give me new ideas for
> bots I build in the future (I got an awsom one
> planned for Chiu's
> contest).
===
Brian
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