In the millions of way to learn the fundamentals of Scala, I chose to implement this collision machine, inspired by the Nature vs Nurture debate along with the King of Diamonds episode in the viral TV Show Alice in Borderland.
The basic idea is given a fixed set of rules to boxes of 3 different colours, which colour will dominate the rest when unleashed in a bounded space?
With the fixed set of rules, one may try to deduce which colour may win. However, the cyclic nature of the rules leaves the deduction indeterminate. Therefore, each colour has an equal chance of dominating another colour. As a result, the only way a specific coloured box may win is therefore to provide an external factor, similar to the environment variable in the Nature vs Nurture debate, or similar to the way Chishiya tells his opponent what move he is going to do in the final round of the King of Diamonds game (with a similar set of cyclic rules) in Alice in Borderland. Once the collisions start, and 2 colours are eventually left standing, the game then turns into the survival of the fittest based on the predefined rules.
In this Collision Machine, the external factor is randomness. Though each colour has the same number of boxes, a random horizontal and vertical speed is assigned to each box, therefore affecting the way it moves along the screen.
ReddominatesBlueBluedominatesGreenGreendominatesRed
Clone this repository locally and run it with an IDE such as Intellij or an editor such as VS Code. Alternatively you can manually compile the Collision.scala file and run it via terminal.