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Language: English:
Modeling of Wood Aging Caused by Biological Deterioration
Xin Yin*, Tadahiro Fujimoto**, Norishige Chiba**, and Hiromi T. Tanaka*
*Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Nojihigashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
**Iwate University, 4-3-5 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate 020-8551, Japan
Received: June 1, 2007
Accepted: September 12, 2007
Keywords: wood, aging, worm-eaten, visual simulation, ant colony optimization
Journal ref: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.12, No.2 pp. 125-131, 2008
Abstract
We propose visually simulating wood aging by microorganisms using an ant colony optimization algorithm to generate wood aging patterns. Ants deposit pheromone similar to termites and wood deterioration caused by termites is simulated using this algorithm. Patterns generated by this algorithm resemble many pattern in nature, meaning ant paths are representative of worm paths and ant pheromones are representative of microorganism growth. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique in experiments.
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